Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 caught fire as it tried to make an emergency landing in Aktau, southwestern Kazakhstan, on Wednesday. It was traveling from the Azeri capital Baku to Grozny, the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya.

RUSSIA downed a passenger plane over Kazakhstan on Christmas Day killing 38 in a fireball crash, according to government sources. An initial investigation by the Azerbaijani government reportedly

The head of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council's Center for Countering Disinformation, Andriy Kovalenko, also claimed that the crash was caused by the Russian air defence fire.

Aviation and military experts said the plane may have been accidentally shot by Russian air defence systems..azerbaijan plane crash, russia behind azerbaijan airlines crash, passenger plane crashes in Kazakhastan,

Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 had flown hundreds of miles off its scheduled route from Azerbaijan to Russia to crash on the opposite shore of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan. A Kazakh official said 38 people had been killed,

Tengrinews.kz - The bodies of 10 victims out of 38 who died in the Baku-Grozny J2-8243 plane crash have been identified, according to Kazakhstan's Ministry for Emergency Situations.

Several passenger plane crashes have occurred worldwide this year, including a Wednesday morning Azerbaijan Airlines wreck that has left dozens feared dead.

The Russians themselves admit that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane, which crashed near Aktau in Kazakhstan on December 25, was hit by a Russian air defense missile. — Ukrinform.

ASTANA/TBILISI/BAKU >> An Embraer passenger jet crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 people, after diverting from an area of Russia that Moscow has recently defended against Ukrainian drone attacks.

The Russian government has cautioned against speculating on the cause of the deadly plane crash in Kazakhstan, which killed 38 people on Wednesday.

The Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 crashed while attempting to land in Aktau in Kazakhstan after flying across the Caspian Sea. The wreckage site is around 3km (1.8 miles) from the city. It had diverted from an area of Russia that Moscow has recently defended against Ukrainian drone attacks. The reason it was diverted has not yet been confirmed.