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I can't execute, control is lost!"
Struggling to control the plane, one of the pilots said
A Russian emergency situations ministry had been sent to Aktau with medical personnel and other equipment,
Putin said later as he opened the CIS leaders' meeting in Saint PetersburgOur thoughts and prayers are with the families and victims of Azerbaijan Airlines flight J28243,
NATO spokesperson Farah Dakhlallah said in a post on the platform X
The wreckage and circumstances around airspace security in southwest Russia indicates... the aircraft was hit by some form of antiaircraft fire,
he claimed
It would be wrong to put forward any hypotheses before the investigation's conclusions. We, of course, will not do this, and no-one should do this. We need to wait until the investigation is completed."
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saidThis morning, an Embraer 190 aircraft of an Azerbaijani airline, flying from Baku to Grozny, was shot down by a Russian air defense system. However, admitting this is inconvenient for everyone, so efforts will be made to cover it up, even the holes in the remaining parts of the aircraft. There is also video footage from inside the plane during the flight, showing punctured life vests and other damage,
he stated in a post on X, sharing screenshots from a video footage shot inside the planeIt looks very much like the detonation of an air defence missile to the rear and to the left of the aircraft, if you look at the pattern of shrapnel that we see,
he told BBC.jpg)
The reasons for the crash are not yet known,
Aliyev said
Subsequent reporting and contextual information, including the follow-on video examination of the wreckage ... and circumstances surrounding the airspace security environment in southwest Russia, leads Osprey to assess that the flight was likely shot down by a Russian air defense system,
said Matthew Borie, chief intelligence officer at aviation-security firm Osprey Flight SolutionsThe investigation into the cause of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash is underway and it is wrong to speculate before it gives its conclusions,
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday
It is highly unusual for an airline to suspend all its flights to a region without a clear explanation,
said Andrei Litvinov, an independent aviation expert and pilot based in MoscowNone of these countries – neither Azerbaijan, Russia nor Kazakhstan – is interested in hiding information. All information will be made available to the public,
said Ashimbayev Maulen
We will hope that they recover."
He said in a Kremlin readout
The holes in the plane's fuselage during the flight are not caused by birds,
said Andriy Kovalenko, an official with Ukraine's National Security and Defense CouncilThe causes of the accident are being investigated,
the government in Baku saidThe information provided to me is that the plane changed its course between Baku and Grozny due to worsening weather conditions and headed to Aktau airport,
said Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev
I dare not make premature statements,
he said in response to questions about whether the plane was shot down
There are videos of the plane crash available in the media and on social networks, and everyone can watch them. However, the reasons for the crash are not yet known to us,
the Azerbaijani president said
An investigative team, led by the deputy prosecutor general of Azerbaijan, has been dispatched to Kazakhstan and is working at the crash site,
the Prosecutor General’s Office in Azerbaijan said in a statementAccording to preliminary reports, the plane requested landing at an alternative airport before the accident … due to heavy fog in Grozny,
Al Jazeera’s Yulia Shapovalova reported from Moscow