Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL), has reported the cancellation of flights to seven cities in southern Russia. On Wednesday one of its flights crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people. Furthermore, yesterday Azerbaijani government sources reported that the plane was shot down by a Russian anti-aircraft missile.
The airline does maintain its flights to other Russian cities
AZAL has reported in a statement that the airline will not fly to the citiesof Mineralnie Vodi, Sochi, Volgograd, Ufa, Samara, Grozny and Makhachkala, all in southern Russia, but yes they will continue flying to other Russian cities such as Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, Astrakhan, Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk.
Flight 8432 from Baku crashed on Wednesday while en route to the Russian city of Grozny. On social networks Videos began to emerge showing shrapnel marks on the plane. Yesterday, Azerbaijani government sources confirmed this information, while The Kremlin called for calm.
Waiting to decipher the black boxes
Similarly, official Kazakh sources They confirmed yesterday the discovery of the black boxes of the crashed plane at the accident site, which will have to be deciphered. The Brazilian company Embraer will be in charge of this.
