Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault.
The Kremlin has declined to state that Russian forces were responsible for downing the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 on December 25, 2024. Russia acknowledged that its air defense systems were active at the time of the incident to shoot down Ukrainian drones but has stopped short of saying it brought down the aircraft.
Europe warns its airlines to stay away through next summer, as Ukraine turns skies of western Russia into a battlefield.
Accidents and incidents with passenger jets are always tragic, particularly when human error is the main contributing factor. In the last several decades alone, there have been many instances of accidental shootdowns of passenger jets around the world.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has claimed that Russia planned terrorist attacks on airlines across the globe
Azerbaijan Airlines’ Embraer 190 was en route from ... Dmitry Yadrov, head of Russia’s civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia, said Friday that as the plane was preparing to land in Grozny ...
ASTANA, January 15. /TASS/. Deciphered information from flight recorders of the crashed Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) plane has been received by Kazakhstan and is now being examined by specialists, TASS has learned from the republic’s Transport Ministry.
Russia's foreign minister is the first official to comment on the data extracted from the Azerbaijan Airlines flight's black box.
"At this stage, there’s no need to create a media frenzy by relying on information that, for the most part, is not supported by the data from the black boxes," the Russian foreign minister added
DALLAS — The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has warned airlines to avoid western Russian airspace due to heightened safety concerns from Russia’s war with Ukraine.
Russia has been planning acts of 'air terror' against airlines worldwide, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk sensationally claimed today as he met with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Warsaw. Mr Tusk accused Moscow of staging sabotage and diversion on Polish soil and beyond.