Plane crash in Kazakhstan: the plane was shot down by Russian air defense over military targets,
The pilot mistook the explosion for a collision with a flock of birds. However, a rocket exploded nearby.
An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger airliner flying from Baku to Grozny was shot down in an area where several Russian military facilities with air defense systems are located.
As the VChK-OGPU project writes, this happened over the Naursky district of Chechnya, where several military units are located. According to the transcript of conversations between the dispatcher and the crew, the pilot mistook the strong impact on the plane for a collision with a flock of birds. In fact, the damage indicates that, most likely, an air defense missile exploded near the aircraft.
According to materials obtained by the channel, this strike occurred approximately 18 kilometers north, northwest of the airport in Grozny,…
