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 ...

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 ...

Azerbaijan Airlines suspended flights to two cities in southern Russia after a passenger plane heading in that direction was diverted across the Caspian Sea and crashed near the city of Aktau in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 25 ...

Azerbaijan Airlines has just said the plane crash that killed 38 people was caused by "external physical and technical interference", according to its preliminary findings ...

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An Azerbaijan Airlines crashed on Wednesday morning in the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, killing 38 of the 67 on board the Embraer 190, according to officials. Euronews has obtained information from ...