"I heard a loud explosion, the oxygen masks fell down and the plane shook," Rinat Assanov told AFP, recalling the moment the Azerbaijan Airlines plane he was on ran into trouble over southern Russia.

Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 was downed on 25 December by a missile from a Pantsir-S1 system brought from Syria to Russia, killing 38 and injuring 29, sources reveal. View on euronews

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I heard a loud explosion, the oxygen masks fell down and the plane shook,” Rinat Assanov told AFP, recalling the moment the Azerbaijan Airlines plane he was on ran into trouble over southern Russia. The plane,

The Kazakh Transport Ministry may release the preliminary results of the investigation into the Azerbaijan Airlines AZAL plane crash near the city o

The publication of the black box data from an Azerbaijani plane that crashed in Kazakhstan last month has been delayed, a Kazakh official said on Friday (Jan 24), after Azerbaijan accused Russia of shooting the airliner.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 24. Russian authorities have identified the individual who opened fire on the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane that crashed in Aktau, sources familiar with the investigation told Trend. The investigation also revealed the names and ranks of those who issued the order for the attack.

Significant developments have emerged in the investigation of the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) plane crash. Sources reveal that the aircraft was shot down by a Pantsir S-1 air defense system transferred to Russia from Syria, and electronic warfare (EW) tactics allegedly disrupted the plane’s control system, contributing to the tragedy.

Russian media leaks of radio communications from Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 were not sourced from its flight recorder, a senior Kazakh official said Friday, coming a week before authorities are expected to release preliminary crash investigation results.

The preliminary findings of the investigation into the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) plane crash near Aktau, Kazakhstan, are expected to be revealed next week, according to Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Kanat Bozumbayev,

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, January 24. The so-called leaked data of talks between the crew members of the crashed AZAL plane vary with the data from the black boxes, Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, head of the government commission to investigate the causes of the crash, Kanat Bozumbayev said at a briefing today, Trend reports.

An international team of experts from Russia, Azerbaijan, ICAO officials, and Brazil continues looking into the accident, Qanat Bozumbayev said