New details have emerged about the last words of a flight attendant on board the ill-fated Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day. The plane was en route to Grozny ...

Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243, which had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s republic of Chechnya, crash-landed a few kilometres short of Aktau airport in Kazakhstan on ...

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.

A Russia-bound Azerbaijani jet that crashed in Kazakhstan in December had probably been damaged by "external objects" before it hit the ground, according to a report released Tuesday. The 53-page ...

While several theories are being thrown into the fray regarding the probable causes of Azerbaijan Airlines' Flight J2-8243 crash in Kazakhstan, one thing seems to be for sure: the Brazilian-built ...

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Claims are mounting that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed over Kazakhstan on Christmas Day was hit by a Russian air defence weapon. Flight J2-8432 was scheduled to fly from the ...

Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243 came down on Wednesday near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from an area of southern Russia in which Moscow has used air defence systems against ...

An investigation has reportedly found a Russian Pantsir-S air defense system hit Azerbaijan Airlines passenger aircraft near Aktau, Kazakhstan before it crashed on Christmas Day. Azerbaijani ...

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 ...

"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 ... were getting up and walking around, crying. A ...