The 53-page preliminary report published by Kazakhstan's transport ministry included photographs of the plane.

Maya Mehrara is a News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K.. Her focus is reporting on international news. She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran.

Thirty-eight people were killed when the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane crashed on Dec. 25 near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after re-routing across the Caspian Sea from southern Russia.

The deadly Azerbaijan Airlines crash on 25 December was a direct result of damage to key flight systems caused by foreign objects, a preliminary official report released on Tuesday by the Azerbaijani ...