Subkhon Rakhimov, one of many passengers who survived the tragic Azerbaijan Airways airplane crash close to Kazakhstan’s Aktau on December 25 documented the suspected shrapnel injury to the plane in a contemporary video.
The video, which has now been circulated on social media, reveals the impact of the crash on the airplane’s physique in addition to tiny holes in its wings.
He had additionally shared a video earlier praying moments earlier than the Azerbaijan Airways airplane crash as passengers panicked with loud engine sounds within the background, proper earlier than the craft plummeted.
On Wednesday, the Azerbaijan Airways Embraer 190, travelling from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny, a metropolis in Russia’s North Caucasus, was diverted for unknown causes.
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The plane then crashed whereas trying to land in Aktau, Kazakhstan, after flying eastward throughout the Caspian Sea. The crash led to the demise of 38 folks and left all 29 survivors injured, reported AP.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, throughout a press convention, attributed the airplane crash to dense fog, which compelled the airplane to divert from its deliberate course. Nonetheless, he added that no confirmed trigger for the crash has been decided but.
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Russia’s civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, stated preliminary data indicated the pilots diverted to Aktau after a chicken strike.
Aviation consultants instructed AP that the holes seen within the airplane’s tail wing part might level to that firing from a Russian air defence system heading off a Ukrainian drone assault. The video shared by Rakhmiov additionally reveals tiny holes throughout the wings and tail part.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov instructed reporters that “it could be mistaken to make hypotheses earlier than investigators make their verdict,” almost about theories of Russian defence system firing.
The parliamentary speaker of Kazakhstan, Maulen Ashimbayev, echoed this opinion, telling AP that it could be unethical to attract conclusions primarily based on footage of the airplane’s fragments.
