Military expert says Azerbaijan Airlines plane likely downed by anti-aircraft missile

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Those comments come after Azerbaijani government sources exclusively confirmed to Euronews that a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the aircraft to crash in Aktau.

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00:00A Russian military expert says it appears the Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in

00:06Kazakhstan was brought down by something very similar to an anti-aircraft missile.

00:12Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8432 took off from the capital Baku on Wednesday morning, bound

00:18for Grozny in Chechnya.

00:21The plane was damaged by something very similar to an anti-aircraft missile.

00:25It is very difficult to assume anything else without any serious evidence.

00:32In general, everything looks like the tail part of the plane was hit by a part of the

00:39fragments of a missile, probably a missile of the Pantsir-S1 system or some anti-aircraft

00:46system with the same small missiles that carry a small combat part.

00:53Those comments come after Azerbaijani government sources exclusively confirmed to Euronews

00:58that a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the aircraft to crash in Aktau.

01:03According to the sources, the missile was fired at the plane during drone activity above

01:08Grozny and shrapnel hit the passengers and cabin crew as it exploded next to the aircraft.

01:14Government sources told Euronews that the damaged aircraft wasn't allowed to land at

01:18any Russian airports despite requests for an emergency landing from the pilots.

01:24It was ordered to fly across the Caspian Sea towards Aktau in Kazakhstan.

01:29On Thursday, Moscow urged against spreading hypotheses about the cause of the crash until

01:34the investigation, which is still ongoing, has been concluded.

01:39If the preliminary data from the probe is confirmed, this will be the second time in

01:43a decade that Russian forces have destroyed a commercial aircraft.

01:48Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by Russian-backed forces over eastern Ukraine

01:53in 2014, killing all 298 people on board.

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