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Tengrinews.kz – On December 25, an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane flying from Baku to Grozny crashed near Aktau. Several Azerbaijani media outlets put forward their own versions of the causes of the tragedy.
Tengrinews.kz – On December 25, an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane flying from Baku to Grozny crashed near Aktau. Several Azerbaijani media outlets put forward their own versions of the causes of the tragedy.
Caliber.Az, citing "reliable government sources," claims that the plane was attacked by the Pantsir-S air defense system as it approached Grozny.
"Moreover, the Russian side completely paralyzed the Azerbaijani aircraft's communications system. It was due to this circumstance that the plane disappeared from radars in Russian airspace and was restored only in the Caspian Sea," the publication writes.
In the publication, the journalists argue: if Russian air defense tried to shoot down Ukrainian drones, as the country's media writes, then a no-fly zone should have been declared over Chechnya. But this was not done.
The publication by Caliber.Az was reprinted by several well-known Azerbaijani news sites: Report.Az, Media.Az, Musavat.com and others.
Meanwhile, the Minval.az publication published a column in which they call the version of their colleagues from Caliber.Az "practically official information" and call on "Russia to apologize", reminding:
"Azerbaijan and Russia are far from being hostile to each other. A Declaration on Allied Interaction was signed between our countries. Such relations already presuppose a completely different level of mutual understanding, especially in critical situations."
Azerbaijani MP Rasim Musabekov has an equally categorical position on the situation. In an interview with Turan, he said that "the plane was shot down on Russian territory, and it is impossible to deny this." The parliamentarian demanded "an apology from Russia for what happened," otherwise the countries' relations "will move to another level."
The day before, Euronews reported that a Russian missile had hit the plane that crashed near Aktau. The international publication also cited a source in the Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers. The media outlet stated that the missile was fired at a time when drones were active in the skies over the capital of Chechnya, and its fragments exploded near the aircraft, damaging its skin and hitting passengers and crew members.
Following this, the major Turkish news agency Anadolu reported that "senior Azerbaijani officials on Thursday confirmed the veracity of earlier media reports that the plane crash was caused by a Russian missile system."
A similar statement was made by the international agency Reuters, citing four sources "familiar with the preliminary results of the investigation into the plane crash."
It should be noted that Russia has not yet commented on the versions of the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane near Aktau.
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Kanat Bozumbayev told our correspondent that experts are continuing to investigate the plane crash.
"It is not possible to confirm or deny any of the versions today," he said.
A similar position was expressed on December 25 by the head of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev:
"We do not know the causes of the accident. There are different versions. I think it is too early to talk about this. The issue must be fully investigated," Azertag quotes him as saying.
