"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.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was offering explanations for the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash that had killed 38 people days earlier. Perhaps it was a flock of birds, Mr. Putin said ...

The last portion of the flight was operated in an area of good coverage.” The website of Azerbaijan Airlines says the airline, which is a member of the International Air Transport Association ...

Russia has broken its silence on the investigation into the data from the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) aircraft's black box after the flight crashed on December 25 on its way to Grozny. During a ...

It’s a topic on many travelers’ minds after a string of recent airline disasters, including a Jeju Air crash in South Korea and the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane. AirlineRatings.com ...

The European Aviation Safety Agency has warned airlines against flying over western Russia due to the risk of being shot down. It comes after Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 was severely damaged ...

Emergency specialists work at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet near Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Dec. 25. Photographer: Issa Tazhenbayev/AFP/Getty Images Facebook ...

On Wednesday, Azerbaijan Airlines announced that it is indefinitely suspending all its flights between Baku and Kazan “due to the recent regular closure of airspace over Kazan.” The measure is ...

Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, has claimed that another Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft had turned away from southern Russia over conflict-zone warnings 10 days before the crash of an ...

Meanwhile, Azerbaijan has directed unusually strong ... of data from two black box recorders recovered from the Azerbaijan Airlines plane which crashed in Kazakhstan on December 25, and passed ...

Flight Data From Azerbaijan Airlines Plane Crash Sent to Kazakhstan Officials SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The extraction of flight data from the Brazilian-made Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in ...

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said the airliner was hit by fire from the ground over Russia and "rendered uncontrollable by electronic warfare." Aliyev accused Russia of trying to "hush up ...