By Nailia Bagirova
BAKU (Reuters) – An Azerbaijan Airways flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday was downed by a Russian air defence system, 4 sources in Azerbaijan with data of the investigation advised Reuters.
An Embraer passenger jet crashed close to town of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 individuals, after diverting from an space of Russia wherein Moscow has used air defence programs in opposition to Ukrainian drone strikes in current months.
Azerbaijan Airways flight J2-8243 had flown a whole bunch of miles 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 brought on by a hen 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 airplane’s flight path was closed on Wednesday morning.
Russian, Azerbaijani and Kazakhstani officers have all referred to as for investigations into the crash.
