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☆ An oxygen tank on the Azerbaijan Airlines flight exploded before the crash, minister says
  + stars: | 2024-12-27 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
An Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38. An oxygen tank exploded before the crash, Kazakhstan's transport minister said. An oxygen tank on the Azerbaijan Airlines flight exploded before the plane crash, Kazakhstan's transport minister said. The minister, Marat Karabayev, did not say definitively that the oxygen-tank explosion was a direct cause of the crash. They said an oxygen cylinder had exploded in the passenger cabin of the aircraft, and that some passengers were losing consciousness.
Persons: Marat Karabayev, Karabayev, didn't Organizations: Azerbaijan Airlines, Embraer, Analysts, Business, New York Times, BI Locations: Kazakhstan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Aktau, Baku, Grozny, Euronews, Russian, Caucasus
☆ Analysts say Russian air defenses could have caused passenger-jet crash that killed dozens
  + stars: | 2024-12-26 | by ( Joshua Nelken-Zitser | Kit Gillet | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Analysts said Russian air defenses, not a bird strike, may have caused the plane to go down. AdvertisementHowever, analysts said that Russian air defenses may have been behind the incident, which killed 38 of the 67 people on board, including both pilots. But others have also suggested that Russian air defenses may have played a role. The Azerbaijan Airlines flight was en route to Grozny, which Ukrainian drones have targeted in recent attacks. Advertisement"The location of the damage is all focused around the tail section," he added, "which would be very unlikely for a bird strike."
Persons: Andriy Kovalenko, Matthew Borie, Oliver Alexander, Alexander, Dmitry Peskov, Samir Rzayev, Ilham Aliyev, Euronews Organizations: Azerbaijan Airlines, Analysts, Ukraine's Center, Business, Malaysian Airlines, District, BI, BBC, Azerbaijan Airline's, Azerbaijan's Foreign Affairs Locations: Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Russia, Russian, Caucasus, Ukrainian, Grozny, North Ossetia, North Caucasus, Vladikavkas
☆ Russian air defenses likely caused passenger jet crash that killed dozens
  + stars: | 2024-12-26 | by ( Joshua Nelken-Zitser | Kit Gillet | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Azerbaijani sources said Russian air defenses, not a bird strike, downed the airliner. AdvertisementHowever, Azerbaijani sources said a preliminary investigation has found Russian air defenses caused the crash, which killed 38 of the 67 people on board, including both pilots. On Wednesday, Andriy Kovalenko, the head of Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation, said in an X post that the plane was "shot down by a Russian air defense system." Others have also suggested that Russian air defenses likely played a role as images of the crash and the plane's flight track emerged. However, on Thursday, unnamed Azerbaijani government sources told Euronews that a preliminary investigation had found that a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the crash.
Persons: Andriy Kovalenko, Matthew Borie, Oliver Alexander, Alexander, Dmitry Peskov, Samir Rzayev, Ilham Aliyev, Euronews Organizations: Azerbaijan Airlines, Aviation, Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft, New York Times, Ukraine, Ukraine's Center, Business, Malaysian Airlines, District, BI, BBC, Azerbaijan Airline's, Foreign Affairs Locations: Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Russian, Russia, Caucasus, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Grozny, North Ossetia, North Caucasus, Vladikavkas
☆ Airline praises pilots in crash-landing where both died but nearly half the passengers survived
  + stars: | 2024-12-26 | by ( Joshua Nelken-Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
An Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38, including both pilots. The airline's president praised the "heroism" of the pilots and crew while speaking to reporters. The president of Azerbaijan Airlines praised the pilots of flight J2-8243 after the plane, carrying 67 people, crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. AdvertisementAlthough both pilots were among the 38 fatalities reported by Kazakh authorities, nearly half the passengers— 29 people —survived. Rzayev, the airline's president, told reporters that the plane's black box had been recovered and that "its analysis is being conducted in line with international aviation standards."
Persons: —, Samir Rzayev, Rzayev, Ashimbayev Maulen, Dmitry Peskov, Andriy Kovalenko, Oliver Alexander, Ilham Aliyev Organizations: Azerbaijan Airlines, Kazakh, Embraer, BBC News, Kazakhstan's, Reuters, AP, Ukraine's Center, Wall, Osprey, Business, North Caucasus Federal, Aircraft Locations: Kazakhstan, Baku, Azerbaijan, Grozny, Russia, Aktau, Russian, North Ossetia, North Caucasus, North Caucasus Federal District, Vladikavkas
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