Kremlin warns against speculation that Russia shot down Azerbaijan Airlines flight
The Kremlin on Thursday warned against speculating about what may have caused an Azerbaijan Airlines flight to crash, killing 38 of the 67 people on board, after an aviation expert said evidence indicated that a Russian anti-missile battery may have brought down the passenger plane.
The Kremlin on Thursday warned against speculating about what may have caused an Azerbaijan Airlines flight to crash, killing 38 of the 67 people on board, after an aviation expert said evidence indicated that a Russian anti-missile battery may have brought down the passenger plane.
The Embraer 190 crashed Wednesday near the Kazakh city of Aktau while en route from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Russia. The flight attempted to make an emergency landing about 1.8 miles from Aktau, according to Azerbaijan Airlines, but instead hit the ground, erupted into a fiery ball and split in two.
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the investigation into the cause of the crash was underway.
“It would be incorrect to make any hypotheses before the investigation comes to conclusions, and we definitely cannot do it and no one should do it,” he said in his daily news conference.
Rescuers work at the wreckage of an Azerbaijan Airlines flight near Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Thursday.Kazakhstan's Emergency Ministry Press Service / APKanat Bozumbayev, the Kazakh deputy prime minister, also cautioned against assigning a cause while the investigation is in its preliminary stage.
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