Azerbaijan Airways has suspended flights to eight further Russian airports after a flight meant to hold passengers from Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to Grozny, Russia crashed “resulting from bodily and technical exterior interference,” the airline has introduced.
Stories recommend {that a} Russian anti-aircraft missile might have been answerable for the catastrophe.
The airline famous in a submit on X that starting Dec. 28, flights from Baku to eight Russian airports have been suspended. The announcement comes along with the prior suspension of flights between Baku and two different Russian airports.
“This determination, made in accordance with the Azerbaijan State Civil Aviation Authority, relies on the preliminary outcomes of the investigation into the crash of the Embraer 190 plane working the Baku-Grozny flight J2-8243 of Azerbaijan Airways resulting from bodily and technical exterior interference and considers potential dangers to flight security. The suspension will stay in impact till the completion of the ultimate investigation,” the airline defined within the X submit.
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Proof assortment efforts are underway on the crash website of an Azerbaijan Airways (AZAL) passenger airplane close to Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Dec. 27, 2024. (Meiramgul Kussainova/Anadolu through Getty Photos)
“It ought to be famous that on December 25, AZAL determined to droop flights from Baku to Grozny and Makhachkala,” the submit famous.Â
The airline had beforehand reported that there had been 62 passengers and 5 crew members aboard the flight. Stories point out that there have been solely 29 survivors.
Preliminary outcomes of Azerbaijan’s probe into the deadly incident recommend the plane was struck by a Russian anti-aircraft missile, or shrapnel from such a missile, people briefed on the investigation famous, based on the Wall Avenue Journal.
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Emergency specialists work on the crash website of an Azerbaijan Airways passenger jet close to the western Kazakh metropolis of Aktau on Dec. 25, 2024. (ISSA TAZHENBAYEV/AFP through Getty Photos)
Fox Information Digital reached out to the Division of Data and Press of the Russian Ministry of Overseas Affairs for remark.
A supply conversant in Azerbaijan’s probe advised Reuters that preliminary outcomes indicated the plane was hit by a Russian Pantsir-S air protection system — digital warfare methods paralyzed communications on the plane’s method to Grozny, the supply said, based on the outlet.
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Emergency specialists work on the crash website of an Azerbaijan Airways passenger jet close to the western Kazakh metropolis of Aktau on Dec. 25, 2024. (ISSA TAZHENBAYEV/AFP through Getty Photos)
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“Nobody claims that it was performed on objective. Nevertheless, bearing in mind the established information, Baku expects the Russian aspect to admit to the capturing down of the Azerbaijani plane,” the supply famous, based on Reuters.
