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Azerbaijan says that passenger plane that crashed on 25 December was subjected to "external interference," investigators examine "what kind of weapon, or rather what kind of rocket was used" (www.bbc.com)

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Azerbaijan's transport minister has said the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed on 25 December was subjected to "external interference" and damaged inside and out, as it tried to land in Russia's southern republic of Chechnya.

"All [the survivors] without exception stated they heard three blast sounds when the aircraft was above Grozny," said Rashad Nabiyev.

The plane is thought to have come under fire from Russian air defence systems before being diverted across the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan, where it crashed with the loss of 38 lives.

The Kremlin has refused to comment, but the head of Russia's civil aviation agency said the situation in Grozny was "very complicated" at the time and a closed-skies protocol had been put in place.

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Azerbajian Airlines said on Friday that a preliminary inquiry had blamed both "physical and technical external interference", without going into details.

However, aviation experts and others in Azerbaijan believe the plane's GPS systems were affected by electronic jamming and it was then damaged by shrapnel from Russian air-defence missile blasts.

The transport minister said investigators would now examine "what kind of weapon, or rather what kind of rocket was used."

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[–] tardigrada@beehaw.org 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

International airlines cancel flights to Russia after the passenger plane was shot down, according to media reports.

Azerbaijan Airlines suspends flights to 7 Russian cities for security reasons
Kazakhstan's Qazaq Air suspends flights to Yekaterinburg
Israeli airline El Al cancels all flights from Tel_Aviv to Moscow

Addition:

Rasim Musabayov, a member of the Azerbaijani parliament's international relations committee, in an interview with Turan news agency:

"The plane was shot down on the territory of Russia, in the skies of Grozny. It is impossible to deny this. Those who did it must be held criminally responsible and compensation must be paid. If this does not happen, then, of course, relations will move to another level."