Wreckage of plane after crashing in Kazakhstan on December 25
Azerbaijan said Russia had promised to punish those responsible for the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) plane, in an incident that Azerbaijan said was caused by Russian air defense forces.
The Embraer 190 plane crashed while trying to make an emergency landing in Kazakhstan on December 25, killing 38 of the 67 people on board.
The President of Azerbaijan said the passenger plane crashed due to being shot from the ground in Russia
According to AFP, the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan said on December 30 that the head of the Russian Investigative Committee announced that “strong measures are being taken to identify the guilty and bring them to criminal responsibility.” “.
The Russian side has not commented on the above information.
Previously, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev asked Moscow to take responsibility for mistakenly shooting when the plane was about to land as scheduled at Grozny airport in southern Russia.
Many people grieved at the funeral on December 29 in Baku (Azerbaijan) for victims of the plane crash
Russia has not confirmed that one of its anti-aircraft missiles hit the plane, although President Vladimir Putin told Aliyev in a phone call that the systems were working at the time and that he was very pleased. We regret that the incident occurred in Russian airspace.
Russia has opened a criminal investigation into the incident.
The plane crash caused several airlines to cancel flights to Russia, including Israel’s El Al. The airline announced that it will suspend flights to Moscow until the end of March.
In related developments, Reuters on December 31 quoted a statement from the Brazilian Air Force saying that the above flight data had been transferred to this South American country for extraction. Embraer is a Brazilian aerospace corporation, specializing in manufacturing commercial, military, agricultural aircraft and providing aviation services, including the above aircraft.
Data from the cockpit voice recorder and flight data will be processed at a laboratory run by Brazilian aviation investigators in the capital Brasilia, while the process will be supervised by representatives from Kazakhstan, Russia and Azerbaijan, according to the Brazilian Air Force. The data will then be sent to investigators in Kazakhstan.
