Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart over an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash that killed 38 people when it crash landed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day. The flight is believed to have come under fire from Russian air defenses when it tried to land in the Russian region of Chechnya.
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00:00Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized over the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines flight
00:05on Christmas Day, but stopped short of saying Russia was responsible.
00:09A statement from the Kremlin says Putin called his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Eliev to
00:15express his condolences to the affected families, and apologized for what the statement described
00:20as a tragic incident.
00:22Investigations so far have pointed to Russia's air defenses mistakenly shooting down the
00:27passenger plane when it tried to land in the Russian region of Chechnya.
00:32The plane diverted and crash-landed in Kazakhstan, killing 38 of the 67 people on board.