Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed while flying from Baku to Groznyi Photo: Issa Tazhenbayev / AFP / Profimedia
The black boxes of the plane belonging to the Azerbaijan Airlines company that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday and that could have been shot down by a Russian anti-aircraft missile will be sent to Brazil for the investigation of this accident that killed 38 dead Kazakh authorities announced on Sunday according to AFP.
“The accident investigation commission (…) decided to send the flight recorders (black boxes) to the Center for the Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (CENIPA) in Brazil, which is also the country of aircraft manufacturer Embraer,” the Kazakh Transport Ministry said. in a statement.
Flight J2-8243, which was traveling between Baku and the Chechen capital of Grozny, crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau on Wednesday after being diverted from southern Russia, where several cities were under attack by Ukrainian drones.
Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on Saturday, according to the Kremlin, that Russian air defenses were in action on Wednesday when the plane attempted to land.
