BAKU: An Azerbaijan Airways flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday (Dec 25) was downed by a Russian air defence system, 4 sources in Azerbaijan with data of the investigation instructed Reuters.
An Embraer passenger jet crashed close to the town of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 folks, after diverting from an space of Russia by which Moscow has used air defence methods towards Ukrainian drone strikes in latest months.
Azerbaijan Airways flight J2-8243 had flown a whole lot of kilometres off its scheduled route from Azerbaijan’s Baku to Grozny, in Russia’s Chechnya, to crash on the alternative shore of the Caspian Sea, after what Russia’s aviation watchdog stated was an emergency that will have been attributable to a chicken strike.
Officers didn’t instantly clarify why it had crossed the ocean, however the crash got here after Ukrainian drone strikes this month hit the Chechnya area of southern Russia. The closest Russian airport on the aircraft’s flight path was closed on Wednesday morning.
Russian, Azerbaijani and Kazakhstani officers have all referred to as for investigations into the crash.
The Kremlin earlier on Thursday cautioned towards “hypotheses” over the crash.
“It might be incorrect to make any hypotheses earlier than the investigation’s conclusions,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov instructed reporters.
“A LOT OF SHRAPNEL”
Russian army professional Yury Podolyaka stated holes seen within the wreckage of the aircraft have been much like the injury attributable to an “anti-aircraft missile system”.
“All the things factors to that,” he wrote.
A former professional at France’s BEA air accident investigation company, additionally stated there gave the impression to be “quite a lot of shrapnel” injury on the wreckage.
Talking on situation of anonymity, he stated the injury was “reminiscent” of Malaysia Airways flight MH17, which was downed with a surface-to-air missile by Russia-backed rebels over japanese Ukraine in 2014.
However Kazakh Senate speaker Maulen Ashimbayev condemned “hypothesis” about what occurred.
He stated it was “not potential” to say what might have broken the aircraft, he was quoted by Russian information company TASS as saying.
Azerbaijan Airways initially stated the aircraft flew via a flock of birds earlier than withdrawing the assertion.
