The authorities of Kazakhstan, who have published on Tuesday the preliminary report on the plane accident that took place in the city of Aktau last December and that resulted in 38 dead, suggest that the incident was caused by the collision of “External objects” against the Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft.
The Kazakh Ministry of Transportation has thus indicated in its official report that this version is “highly probable”, which could agree with the hypothesis given by President Azerí himself, Ilham Aliyev, just days after the accident. Aliyev then indicated that the plane could have been subject to an “accidental shot” from the ground by Russia in the framework of the Ukraine invasion.
These accusations have also been expressed by the Ukrainian government, which have accused Russian troops of having knocked down the aircraft with several anti -aircraft defense systems, and have led NATO to claim a “complete investigation” on the incident.
For his part, the spokesman for Kremlin, Dimitri Peskov, has alerted this Tuesday of the “error” of formulating precipitated hypotheses about the reasons of the plane crash, after the Ukrainian authorities have signed up for the Russian defenses as responsible for the tragedy, without the Kazakh authorities having now given a definitive version of the causes.
The plane covered the route that joins the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, and Grozni, capital of the Russian region of Chechnya. At two hours of flight the aircraft asked to land emergency but the maneuver was stopped due to the thick fog in Grozni, so the aircraft was first derived from Majachkala, in the Russian Daguestan, and then to Aktau, where he finally suffered The incident.
