AZAL pilots’ transcript leaked online. What the Ministry of Transport says

Tengrinews.kz — The Ministry of Transport declined to comment on the transcript of the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) pilots' conversations that appeared online earlier.

It is reported that the Ministry of Transport's air accident investigation commission continues to work to establish the causes of the incident.

"Until the publication of the preliminary report, the commission will not comment on data from the Internet that does not have any official source," the statement said.

Telegram channel Baza published a transcript of the conversations between the pilots of the Embraer-190 plane that crashed near Aktau and the air traffic controllers.

Earlier, the Ministry of Transport of Kazakhstan reported that the black boxes of the plane were returned to Kazakhstan from Brazil and handed over to the commission to give an opinion on the air crash in Aktau. The decoded data of the flight recorders that arrived in our country are also being studied by specialists.

In addition, the Ministry of Transport announced when the preliminary cause of the crash would be disclosed.

Baku-Grozny plane crash near Aktau: What happened?

Azerbaijan Airlines plane, flying from Baku (Azerbaijan) to Grozny (Russia), crashed three kilometers from Aktau at 11:30 A.M. local time on December 25. The passenger flight was unable to land in Grozny due to heavy fog, first, it was redirected to Makhachkala, and then to Aktau.

The official cause of the incident is still unknown. The media are spreading various theories, including a bird getting into the plane's engine, as well as an oxygen tank exploding in the cabin. The black box was found in the evening of the same day, now experts will have to decipher its data.