Evidence suggests Azerbaijani aircraft shot down by Russian air defence systems on Wednesday
People in Baku lay flowers in memory of victims of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane which crashed in Kazakhstan. Photograph: EPAThe Kazakh airline, Qazaq Air, said on Friday it suspended its Astana to Ekaterinburg route, according to the Kazinform news agency, while Azerbaijan Airlines suspended flights to seven cities in the south of Russia.
‘We need Macron to act.’ The view in Mayotte, the French island territory steamrolled by cyclone Chido “Injured passengers and surviving flight attendants said that they heard an explosion when they were over Grozny,” Mr Nabiyev said, adding that there was video evidence of a flight attendant and a passenger sustaining injuries to their arms and legs.
He said the Azerbaijani commission at the scene inspected the body of the aircraft, also pointing to an external impact. “Damage to the fuselage and traces of shrapnel were recorded inside the aircraft.” Russia had insisted the aircraft was unable to land in Grozny because of heavy fog and that the aircraft had hit a flock of birds. Local authorities in Russia’s nearby North Ossetia region announced an attack by Ukrainian drones, one of which was shot down, killing a woman on the ground. But the Kommersant newspaper reported there was no “heavy fog” forecast for Grozny at the time.
A joint investigation is being carried out by Azerbaijani, Kazakh and Russian officials. The aircraft type involved — an Embraer-190 regional jet — was previously regarded as one of the world’s safest civil aircraft.
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