Four sources in Azerbaijan say that a Russian air defense system brought down an Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, December 25.
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00:00Four sources in Azerbaijan say that a Russian air defense system brought down an Azerbaijan
00:06Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, December 25.
00:11An Embraer passenger jet, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J28243, crashed near Aktau, Kazakhstan
00:18on December 25, killing 38 people.
00:22The plane deviated hundreds of miles from its scheduled route from Baku, Azerbaijan,
00:26to Grozny, Russia, to crash on the opposite shore of the Caspian Sea after experiencing
00:31an emergency, possibly due to a bird strike.
00:34Officials did not immediately clarify why the plane had crossed the sea, but the crash
00:38occurred after Ukrainian drone strikes targeted the Chechnya region of southern Russia earlier
00:43this month.
00:44The closest Russian airport along the plane's flight path was closed on Wednesday morning.
00:50Residents from Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have all called for investigations into the
00:54crash.