Azerbaijan Airlines plane suffered ’external interference’ before crash in Kazakhstan - airline
Azerbaijan Airlines has reported that the crashed Azerbaijan Airlines plane was subjected to "physical and technical interference".
The statement was published on the website of Azerbaijan Airlines, Censor.NET reports.
They said that before the passenger plane crashed near Aktau in Kazakhstan, it had been subjected to "external physical and technical interference."
The statement did not specify what exactly this interference was.
Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Kazakhstan
On 25 December, an Embraer plane en route from Baku to Grozny, Russia, crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau.
38 people died as a result of the downing of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane. According to one version in the media, the plane could have been hit by air defence systems over the territory of the Russian Federation.
According to media reports, a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane in Aktau.
Defense Intelligence Chief Kyrylo Budanov says that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane was shot down by Russia's Pantsir-S1 air defense system.
Azerbaijan expects Russia to officially recognize the downing of the passenger plane, Reuters reports.
The spokesman for the Russian dictator Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on the information about Russia's involvement in the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane in Kazakhstan.
