Azerbaijan held a day of mourning on Thursday for the dozens of victims of an airliner crash in Kazakhstan, as questions were being asked over the cause of the disaster.
The reasons why Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 came down are still unknown. Officials from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia, three countries linked to the disaster, urged people not to speculate about the crash until investigations have concluded. The plane was traveling from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya before it made an emergency landing approximately 3 kilometers from Aktau, Kazakhstan, the carrier said on Wednesday.
Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsia also said that the plane crashed after colliding with birds. However, Andriy Kovalenko, the head of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation, part of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, disputed this, claiming on social media that the plane was “shot down by a Russian air defense system.” The crash came shortly after Ukrainian drone strikes hit southern Russia.
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