Russian air defenses downed Azerbaijan Airlines flight, sources say

BAKU –
Russian air defenses downed an Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft that crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38 folks, 4 sources with data of the preliminary findings of Azerbaijan’s investigation into the catastrophe mentioned on Thursday.

Flight J2-8243 crashed on Wednesday in a ball of fireside close to the town of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from an space of southern Russia, the place Moscow has repeatedly used air protection techniques in opposition to Ukrainian drone strikes.

The Embraer passenger jet had flown from Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to Grozny, in Russia’s southern Chechnya area, earlier than veering off a whole lot of miles throughout the Caspian Sea.