Russia blames bird crash, but plane has clear shrapnel marks

The clues pointing to Russia in the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash

Esp 12·25·2024 · 22:28 0

This morning, an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190AR commercial aircraft crashed in the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan, resulting in destruction.

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In this video from Airways Magazine we can see the moment the plane, 4K-AZ65 flight J2-8243, crashed, causing a loud explosion when it hit the ground:

Despite the severity of the accident, 29 of the 67 people on board the plane have survived. According to published reports, most of the survivors were in the tail of the plane, which has remained relatively intact. Azerbaijan Airlines has published a list with the names of the crew and passengers.

Flight J2-8243 was heading from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, a republic that is part of the Russian Federation. According to Flightradar24, the Azerbaijani plane "took off from Baku at 03:55 UTC time and was flying to Grozny. The aircraft was exposed to strong GPS jamming which made the aircraft transmit bad ADS-B data. At 04:40 UTC we lost the ADS-B signal. At 06:07 UTC we picked up the ADS-B signal again before it crashed at 06:28 UTC."

Europa Press has pointed out: "Two hours into the flight, the aircraft requested an emergency landing but was denied due to fog in Grozny, so it was diverted first to Makhachkala, in Russian Dagestan, and then to Aktau."

On the cause of the crash, Reuters has noted that "Russia's aviation watchdog said was an emergency that may have been caused by a bird strike. But an aviation expert suggested that cause seemed unlikely."

Reuters also notes that the crash came after Ukrainian drone strikes this month hit the southern Russian region of Chechnya: "The Russian airport closest to the plane's flight path was closed on Wednesday morning."

This afternoon, Ukraine has pointed the finger at Russian air defenses for the downing of flight J2-8243. The head of the Center for Countering Disinformation of the Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Andri Kovalenko, said: "This morning, an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 flying from Baku to Grozny was shot down by a Russian air defense system. Russia should have closed the airspace over Grozny, but it didn't. The plane was damaged by the Russians and was sent to Kazakhstan instead of making an emergency landing in Grozny and saving lives."

On Twitter, Special Kherson Cat posted this video, noting: "The tail section of the plane survived the crash and witnesses were able to capture on videos damage on the tail that is typical of fragments from air defense missiles."

The same source has noted: "Russian air defense most likely caused the crash of an Embraer 190 passenger plane during UAV attack on Chechnya." It also released this video recorded by a passenger on flight J2-8243, which shows damage inside the plane that could have been caused by shrapnel from a SAM (surface-to-air missile):

Here is another video posted by Special Kherson Cat in which we see more images of the holes caused by shrapnel in the fuselage of the Azerbaijani plane:

Another video from the same source, recorded by a passenger, in which we see damages inside the plane that fit with the shrapnel hypothesis:

Recall that on July 17, 2014, pro-Russian militias shot down a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER commercial airliner, flight MH17, as it was flying near Hrabove, Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, in an area occupied by those pro-Russian militias. Russia blamed Ukraine, but the investigation into the accident brought to light the truth, stating that the plane was hit by a Russian 9M38-type missile, equipped with a 9N314M warhead, launched by a Buk surface-to-air missile system. All 298 occupants of the plane died: 15 crew members and 283 passengers.

+ UPDATED 26.12.2024 23:46h: Euronews publishes today a news item indicating that the Azerbaijani government considers that the fall of the Azerbaijani Embraer 190 was caused by a Russian surface-to-air missile. According to an Azerbaijani media outlet cited by Euronews, the missile used would have been launched by a Pantsir-S medium/short-range anti-aircraft defence system, which uses 57E6 missiles, whose warhead has a fragmentation charge that would explain the remains of shrapnel found in the fuselage of the plane.

Euronews also notes that Azerbaijani government sources indicate that "the damaged plane was not allowed to land at any Russian airport despite the pilots' requests to carry out an emergency landing, and was ordered to fly across the Caspian Sea towards Aktau, in Kazakhstan. According to available data, the plane's GPS navigation systems were blocked throughout the flight path over the sea," Euronews adds.

Thus, with the absurd order to go to Kazakhstan and with its interference with the plane's GPS, it can be deduced that Russia would have tried to make the Azerbaijani plane fall into the sea so that there would be no witnesses or evidence of what happened.

+ UPDATED 27.12.2024 0:32h: On Twitter, Railsplitter Fella notes: "A convoy that includes the only Pantsir in Chechnya hurriedly leaving Grozny. If it reminds you of the way the Buk was hurriedly driven out of Ukraine after MH17 was downed, it’s the same terrorists in both cases. ." Here's the photo. It seems that Russia is trying to hide the weapons system used to shoot down the Azerbaijani plane.

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Main photo: Azamat Sarsenbayev.

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