Azerbaijan Airlines has suspended flights to 8 backup Russian airports nearest a flying intended to hold passengers from Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to Grozny, Russia crashed “due to physical and technical external interference,” the airline has introduced.
Reviews recommend {that a} Russian anti-aircraft missile could have been liable for the situation.
The airline famous in a publish on X that starting Dec. 28, flights from Baku to 8 Russian airports were suspended. The announcement comes along with the prior postponed of flights between Baku and two alternative Russian airports.
“This decision, made in accordance with the Azerbaijan State Civil Aviation Authority, is based on the preliminary results of the investigation into the crash of the Embraer 190 aircraft operating the Baku-Grozny flight J2-8243 of Azerbaijan Airlines due to physical and technical external interference and considers potential risks to flight safety. The suspension will remain in effect until the completion of the final investigation,” the airline defined within the X publish.

Proof assortment efforts are underway on the hit website online of an Azerbaijan Airways (AZAL) passenger aircraft close Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Dec. 27, 2024. (Meiramgul Kussainova/Anadolu by way of Getty Photographs)
“It should be noted that on December 25, AZAL decided to suspend flights from Baku to Grozny and Makhachkala,” the publish famous.
The airline had in the past reported that there have been 62 passengers and 5 workforce participants enroute the flying. Reviews point out that there have been handiest 29 survivors.
Initial result of Azerbaijan’s probe into the awful incident recommend the plane used to be struck via a Russian anti-aircraft missile, or shrapnel from this sort of missile, people briefed at the investigation famous, consistent with the Wall Street Journal.

Situation consultants paintings on the hit website online of an Azerbaijan Airways passenger jet close the western Kazakh town of Aktau on Dec. 25, 2024. (ISSA TAZHENBAYEV/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Fox Information Virtual reached out to the Branch of Data and Press of the Russian Ministry of Overseas Affairs for remark.
A supply regular with Azerbaijan’s probe told Reuters that initial effects indicated the plane used to be strike via a Russian Pantsir-S breeze protection gadget — digital war programs paralyzed communications at the plane’s strategy to Grozny, the supply mentioned, consistent with the hole.
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Situation consultants paintings on the hit website online of an Azerbaijan Airways passenger jet close the western Kazakh town of Aktau on Dec. 25, 2024. (ISSA TAZHENBAYEV/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
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“No one claims that it was done on purpose. However, taking into account the established facts, Baku expects the Russian side to confess to the shooting down of the Azerbaijani aircraft,” the supply famous, consistent with Reuters.