Those comments come after Azerbaijani government sources exclusively confirmed to Euronews that a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the aircraft to crash in Aktau.
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00:00A Russian military expert says it appears the Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in
00:06Kazakhstan was brought down by something very similar to an anti-aircraft missile.
00:12Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8432 took off from the capital Baku on Wednesday morning, bound
00:18for Grozny in Chechnya.
00:21The plane was damaged by something very similar to an anti-aircraft missile.
00:25It is very difficult to assume anything else without any serious evidence.
00:32In general, everything looks like the tail part of the plane was hit by a part of the
00:39fragments of a missile, probably a missile of the Pantsir-S1 system or some anti-aircraft
00:46system with the same small missiles that carry a small combat part.
00:53Those comments come after Azerbaijani government sources exclusively confirmed to Euronews
00:58that a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the aircraft to crash in Aktau.
01:03According to the sources, the missile was fired at the plane during drone activity above
01:08Grozny and shrapnel hit the passengers and cabin crew as it exploded next to the aircraft.
01:14Government sources told Euronews that the damaged aircraft wasn't allowed to land at
01:18any Russian airports despite requests for an emergency landing from the pilots.
01:24It was ordered to fly across the Caspian Sea towards Aktau in Kazakhstan.
01:29On Thursday, Moscow urged against spreading hypotheses about the cause of the crash until
01:34the investigation, which is still ongoing, has been concluded.
01:39If the preliminary data from the probe is confirmed, this will be the second time in
01:43a decade that Russian forces have destroyed a commercial aircraft.
01:48Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by Russian-backed forces over eastern Ukraine
01:53in 2014, killing all 298 people on board.