On December 26, local time, regarding the cause of the Aktau crash incident, Kazakhstan's Deputy Prime Minister Bozumbayev stated at a press conference that the conclusion needs to be determined through investigation. Bozumbayev mentioned that Kazakhstan is maintaining contact with relevant Azerbaijani departments. Kazakhstan has not presented any version of the incident cause, nor has it formally received any version from Russia and Azerbaijan, so it cannot deny any specific version of the incident cause. On December 25, local time, a passenger plane flying from Baku, Azerbaijan to Grozny, Russia crashed in the suburbs of Aktau, a city in western Kazakhstan, with 38 confirmed dead and 29 survivors.