A passenger on the Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan recounts hearing a loud bang before the aircraft went down. The airline attributes the cause of the crash to 'external' interference, while four sources suggest Russian air defenses mistakenly shot down the plane.
‘I thought the plane was going to fall apart’: Passenger recalls loud bang before plane crash , Azerbaijan Airlines blames ‘external’ interference
Flight J2-8243 crashed on Wednesday in a ball of fire near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from an area of southern Russia where Moscow has repeatedly used air defence systems against Ukrainian drones. Four sources with knowledge of the preliminary findings of Azerbaijan’s investigation into the disaster told Reuters yesterday that Russian air defences had mistakenly shot it down.
The Embraer passenger jet had flown from Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to Grozny, in Russia’s southern Chechnya region, before veering off hundreds of miles across the Caspian Sea. After the turmoil of the crash landing, there was silence before the moaning of the injured began, Rakhimov said.
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