A passenger plane in Chechnya could have been shot down by Russian air defense – World

Holes on the aircraft body are typical for being hit by anti-aircraft defenses.

Footage of the tail of the Baku-Grozny passenger plane, which failed to land in the capital of Chechnya and crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, December 25, appeared on the Internet.

In the video published by the Kazakh publication Orda, holes are visible, which are characteristic of damage by anti-aircraft weapons.

The Azerbaijan Airlines plane, with 67 passengers and 5 crew members on board, was unable to land at the destination airport allegedly due to bad weather conditions.

According to the Telegram channel “VChK-OGPU”, the crew of the aircraft decided not to land in Grozny, but to go to the reserve airfield in Mineralnye Vody. The plane turned around in the air and began to follow a new route.

At a distance of 15 km from the airport at an altitude of 2400 meters, the commander…