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Sources within the government of Azerbaijan told Euronews on Thursday they believe a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the deadly crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243, which killed over 30 of the plane’s passengers on Wednesday.from Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, with 67 people aboard on Christmas Day when it veered hundreds of miles off-course and went down near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan.
“Video of the wreckage and the circumstances around the airspace security environment in southwest Russia indicates the possibility the aircraft was hit by some form of anti-aircraft fire,”on Wednesday the plane was clearly brought down by Russian fire, but “admitting this is inconvenient for everyone, so efforts will be made to cover it up, even the holes in the remaining parts of the aircraft.
A growing number of reporters and aviation experts noted on Wednesday that the fuselage of the plane showed damage that was inconsistent with a bird strike, and more closely resembled shrapnel punctures or bullet holes. Azerbaijan Airlines, and the Azeri government, have yet to make an official statement that deviates from the “bird strike” story, but sources within the Azeri governmentEuronews on Thursday that the plane was indeed damaged by a Russian missile – and the Russian government refused desperate requests from the pilots for an emergency landing, forcing the plane to fly across the Caspian Sea to Aktau, Kazakhstan.
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