Dozens are dead after a plane bound for Russia crashed in Kazakhstan. At least 38 are dead. Twenty-nine survived. The crash was caught on camera and shows video inside the plane while it was still in the air. Tonight, investigators are trying to find out what caused the crash.
The Kremlin on Thursday warned against speculating what may have caused an Azerbaijan Airlines flight to crash, killing 38 of the 67 on board, after an aviation expert said evidence indicated that a Russian anti-missile battery may have brought down the passenger plane. The Embraer 190 crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau while en route from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny in Chechnya in Russia on Wednesday. The flight attempted to make an emergency landing about 1.
and circumstances surrounding the airspace security environment in southwest Russia, leads Osprey to assess that the flight was likely shot down by a Russian air defense system,' said Matthew Borie, chief intelligence officer at the aviation security firm Osprey Flight Solutions. The Wall Street Journal first reported Osprey's findings.
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