As the investigation into the Dec 25 Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 crash deepens, media reports quoted Azerbaijan officials as saying that the preliminary investigation revealed that the plane was struck by a missile system as it approached Grozny in Russia.
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00:00Survivors of the December 25th Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J28243 crash said they heard
00:09mid-air explosions before the aircraft went down in Kazakhstan's Aktau city.
00:14As the investigation deepens, media reports quoted Azerbaijan officials as saying that
00:19the preliminary investigation revealed that the plane was struck by a missile system as
00:24it approached Grozny in Russia.
00:27Videos and photos of the plane filled with holes were circulated on social media.
00:58After the plane took off for half an hour, we heard two explosions.
01:06We thought it was a missile, but it wasn't.
01:10Two explosions from the inside.
01:14One person's hand was injured.
01:18We were terrified.
01:20We understood from the impact of the explosions that if the explosions were harmful to us,
01:32we would take the blame for it.
01:36At that moment, the impact of the explosions, the impact of the impact of the explosions,
01:42the impact of the impact of the explosions, the impact of the explosions, the impact of
01:46the explosions, the impact of the explosions, the impact of the explosions, the impact of
01:48the explosions, the impact of the explosions, the impact of the explosives.
01:50A flight with 67 people onboard took off from Haidar Aliyev International Airport in Baku
01:52at 7.55 am for Grozny.
01:56Following reports of a bird strike and several diversions due to bad weather, the plane veered
02:00off of course over the Caspian Sea before it crashed on a field about 3 kms from the
02:06Aktau airport and about 11.30 am.
02:1038 people including two pilots and a flight attendant were killed in the crash, while
02:1529 others survived.
02:18Those on board the plane are nationals of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia.
02:24Azerbaijan Airlines said the incident was caused by what it termed as
02:29physical and technical external interference.
02:33The airline had since suspended a host of flights to Russian cities.
02:37Reuters reports said that preliminary findings showed that Russian air defenses
02:41had mistakenly shot the plane down.
02:44Kremlin on Thursday said the investigation is still ongoing
02:47and they will not comment further until the investigation is concluded.