Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault.

The Telegram channel Baza has published what appears to be the full transcript of communications between the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed on December 25 and air traffic controllers in Grozny,

Airlines including British Airways and Virgin Atlantic continue to fly a matter of miles from the GPS-jammed Russian region where an Azerbaijan Airlines plane was hit by suspected air defence missiles on Christmas Day.

Azerbaijan Airlines announced that it is indefinitely suspending all its flights between Baku and Kazan “due to the recent regular closure of airspace over Kazan.” The measure is necessary “to ensure flight safety,

However, the footage being shared was not filmed on the Azerbaijan Airlines flight—it actually shows an Air Algérie flight on 22 September 2024. This flight was due to land in Istanbul but returned to Algiers, from where it had taken off, because of a technical problem. The plane landed safely and no one was injured.

Accidents and incidents with passenger jets are always tragic, particularly when human error is the main contributing factor. In the last several decades alone, there have been many instances of accidental shootdowns of passenger jets around the world.

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A Ryanair flight from London Luton has been forced to abort its landing after the plane's GPS signal was 'jammed' near the boarder with Russia.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 17. Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill has sent a letter of condolences to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in connection with the tragic loss of life as a result of the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane near the city of Aktau, flying from Baku to Grozny on December 25, Trend reports.

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