People hold placards reading "Brothers, hold on!" and "We are with you!" outside the Azerbaijani embassy during an event to pay tribute to victims of AZAL plane crash in Aktau, in Astana, Kazakhstan. An AZAL Embraer 190, flying from Baku to Russia's Grozny, crashed some 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) away from the Aktau airport with 69 people on board on December 25. The airline said the preliminary cause of the plane's crash was collision with a flock of birds.