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Azeri sources: Azerbaijan Airlines flight was downed by Russian air defense system
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Specialists work at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet near the western Kazakh city of Aktau on December 25, 2024. (Handout / Kazakhstan's emergency situations ministry via AFP)
An Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan yesterday was downed by a Russian air defense system, four sources in Azerbaijan with knowledge of the investigation tell Reuters.
An Embraer passenger jet crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan yesterday, killing 38 people, after diverting from an area of Russia in which Moscow has used air defense systems against Ukrainian drone strikes in recent months.
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