A Russian air protection system was behind the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft in Kazakhstan, 4 Azerbaijani sources stated Thursday, because the Kremlin urged warning and stated an investigation was nonetheless ongoing.
Citing authorities sources, a report in Azerbaijani news outlet AnewZ claimed that the preliminary outcomes of the investigation into the incident decided that the aircraft was attacked by a Pantsir missile system because it approached town of Grozny.
According to the report, the plane’s communication system was utterly paralyzed resulting from using Russian digital warfare programs, which resulted within the aircraft disappearing from radars whereas in Russian airspace.
It added that the aircraft solely reappeared in radars whereas it was within the space across the Caspian Sea.
The Azerbaijan Airlines’ Embraer 190 plane was en route from Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to the Russian metropolis of Grozny within the North Caucasus on Wednesday when it was diverted for causes but unclear and crashed whereas attempting to land in Aktau in Kazakhstan after flying east throughout the Caspian Sea.
The aircraft went down about 3 kilometers (round 2 miles) from Aktau. Cellphone footage circulating on-line appeared to point out the plane making a steep descent earlier than smashing into the bottom in a fireball. Other footage confirmed a part of its fuselage ripped away from the wings and the remainder of the plane mendacity the wrong way up within the grass.
The Kremlin urged restraint on Thursday in speculating about the reason for an Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft crash in Kazakhstan that killed 38 of the 67 passengers on board, as Azerbaijan held a nationwide day of mourning.
“An investigation is currently under way; every incident in aviation must be investigated by specialized aviation authorities,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov instructed the Russian state-run TASS news company. “It would be wrong to hypothesize before the conclusions of the investigation are available.”
Various theories have been put ahead, together with the chance that the plane was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile countering a Ukrainian drone assault, primarily based on uncommon injury noticed on the aircraft’s fuselage.
The chairman of the Senate in Kazakhstan, Maulen Aschimbayev, dismissed this as “hype” and an unsubstantiated declare.
Recovery groups retrieved the flight recorders from the wreckage of the plane on the crash web site close to Aktau on the Caspian Sea coast Wednesday night. Their evaluation, together with radio communications, is predicted to assist investigators decide the reason for the crash.
The Embraer 190 plane, was en route from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny, the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, with 67 folks aboard, together with 5 crew members.
For causes nonetheless unknown, the aircraft veered in direction of the Caspian Sea earlier than crashing close to Aktau, Kazakhstan, shortly earlier than its touchdown method.
Source: www.dailysabah.com