"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.

New findings emerging from Russian sources suggest that Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 was downed by a missile fired from a Pantsir-S1 air defence system which was brought from Syria to Russia, ...

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This is a comprehensive Flight Review of Azerbaijan Airlines. Class: Economy Route: Baku (GYD) to Dubai (DXB) Plane: Boeing 787-8 Trump makes promise as he orders declassification of JFK and MLK ...

Iran's Mahan Air is next (25%, whose fleet still includes one A340-200, alongside the -300 and -600). Afghanistan's Kam Air is joint third with SWISS (8%), followed by South African Airways (2%).

Azerbaijan's president says events of Jan. 20 have become a 'symbol of struggle for national independence, freedom and invincible will' Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev places wreath at Eternal ...

BAKU, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Seven people went on trial in Azerbaijan on Tuesday in the latest of a series of cases against staff of independent news media, prompting accusations of a crackdown on the ...

AP They were captured in September 2023, during Azerbaijan's lightning offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh aimed at regaining full control of the separatist enclave. The trial of 16 Armenian prisoners ...

ASTANA – Joint investigations are underway into the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) plane near Aktau, in coordination with authorities of Kazakhstan and Russia, including the Prosecutor’s ...

A newly released transcript of radio communications reveals the tragic final moments of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, which crashed near Aktau on December 25, claiming 38 lives out of the 67 people ...

BP Plc restarted one of two production platforms in Azerbaijan’s largest natural gas deposit of Shah Deniz that’s been out of operation for more than a week due to an unplanned outage.

The capital of Tatarstan, Kazan, is more than 600 miles from the closest Ukrainian-controlled territory. Russia's Rosaviatsia federal air transport agency announced temporary restrictions on ...