The Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) passenger plane that crashed on Wednesday in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people was hit by a Russian anti-aircraft missile according to sources from the Azerbaijani Government said on conditions of anonymity.
Flight 8432 coming from Baku has been hit by shrapnel from a surface-to-air missile when it was in the airspace of the Russian city of Groznytheir destination, according to these sources.
Likewise, they have assured that the authorities They did not allow the emergency landing requested by the pilots at Russian airports and that caused its detour to the city of Aktau, in Kazakhstan. To get there, he had to fly over the waters of the Caspian Sea.
The missile used to shoot it down was a Pantsir-S, according to the pro-government agency Caliber.Az. The same agency has explained that Russian sources have acknowledged that they were trying to shoot down Ukrainian drones in Chechnyathe route along which the AZAL plane traveled.
Until this moment, had been considered as possible causes of the accident the collision of the plane with a flock of birds or the explosion of an oxygen cylinder on board the plane.
At the same time, social media had begun to display posts showing that In the photographs of the wreckage of the aircraft, traces of shrapnel could be seen.
Kremlin calls for calm
AZAL announced yesterday the suspension of all its flights to Gronzi until the causes are clarified, while the Kremlin today called for calm do not rush to hasty conclusions about this new information.
The black boxes have been found
The black boxes of the crashed plane were found at the accident site according to official Kazakh sources.
The transport prosecutor of the Mangystau region of Kazakhstan, Abilaibek Ordabaev, reported at a press conference that “during the inspection of the accident site, two flight recorders were discovered that will be handed over to the Air Accident Investigation Department.” Furthermore, he added that site inspection work, covering more than 4,000 square meters, are “in the final stage“.
The decryption of the black boxes It will be carried out by the Brazilian company Embraer that will arrive tomorrow in the Central Asian country.
