Baku: Azerbaijan Airlines said on Friday that preliminary results showed that one of its planes which crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday experienced “external physical and technical interference”, Reuters has reported.
An Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190, en route from Baku to Grozny in Russia’s North Caucasus, was diverted under unclear circumstances on Wednesday and crashed while attempting to land in Aktau, Kazakhstan, after crossing the Caspian Sea. The crash claimed 38 lives, with all 29 survivors sustaining injuries.
The revelation from the airline comes after it suspended flights to several Russian cities following the crash citing potential safety risks as multiple experts blamed the a strike by Russian air defence system the reason downing of the passenger aircraft.
