US EditionPutin apologizes to Aliyev over ‘tragic incident’ with Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash
- Vladimir Putin apologized to the President of Azerbaijan for the downing of a commercial airliner in Russian airspace, which resulted in 38 deaths.
- The incident occurred while Russian air defense systems were repelling Ukrainian drones, according to Putin.
- Azerbaijan's Transport Minister mentioned that the plane faced 'external interference' during its landing attempt.
- Aviation experts believe the plane's GPS systems were jammed and damaged by shrapnel from Russian missile blasts.
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Moscow. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s apology, through a press release, proved insufficient for his Azeri counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, who this Sunday made a visibly annoying face and, before his audience, announced three conditions to close what the Kremlin holder called, the previous Saturday, “a tragic incident in his airspace.”
The black box of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan this week, believed to have been hit by Russian air defense missiles, is being sent to Brazil for investigation, Kazakh authorities said Sunday.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev accused Moscow of trying to cover up its responsibility.
The versions of events put forward by Russia after the crash “clearly show that the Russian side wanted to cover up the case”, Ilham Aliev said on national television on Sunday, according to the state news agency Azertac. The day before, Vladimir Putin had apologized for a “tragic accident”.
Investigations continue to clarify what really happened to the Azerbaijani Airlines plane that crashed near Aktau, Kazakhstan, on 25 December. Flight J2-8243, which had taken off from Baku, Azerbaijan, bound for Grozny, Chechnya, hit the ground with 67 people on board, resulting in at least 38 deaths and 29 survivors. Despite the fact that a few days have passed since the incident, the circumstances are confusing and have led to different interp…
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