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 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 ...

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

BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 28. The treatment of two women who were injured in the crash of an AZAL (Azerbaijan Airlines) plane ...

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 ...

"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 ...

On 25 December, 38 people died when an Azerbaijan Airlines flight, which had been due to land in Russia, crash-landed in Kazakhstan. The circumstances around the crash remain unclear, but limited ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Last year, on December 25, 2024, an Embraer ERJ-190AR operated by Azerbaijan Airlines crashed near Aktau Airport in Kazakhstan. The incident killed 38 of the aircraft’s 69 passengers.