AZAL Plane Crash: Putin, Bastrykin and Different Russian Versions

The tragedy with the Azerbaijani airliner that occurred on December 25, 2024 in Russian airspace has long gone beyond an aviation incident and has turned into a demonstrative story about how mutually exclusive versions of the same catastrophe coexist in the state system of the Russian Federation.

As reported by Oxu.Az, this is stated in a new issue of the Caliber.Az YouTube channel.

"This is about the downing by Russian air defense forces of an Embraer-190 aircraft of AZAL airline, which was operating the Baku - Grozny flight and crashed in Aktau, Kazakhstan. 38 people died, dozens were injured. However, the essence of the problem today is not only in the scale of the human tragedy, but in how Moscow explains the causes of what happened and who is being asked to believe these explanations.

Almost immediately after the catastrophe, it became obvious that versions about "unfavorable weather conditions," "bird strikes," and "gas cylinder explosion" looked extremely dubious. Photos of the fuselage with characteristic damage, testimonies of surviving passengers who told about a sharp impact in the air, instant depressurization and failure of control systems - all this pointed to external influence, not a standard aviation accident. From the first hours of the incident, the Azerbaijani side did not hide behind diplomatic euphemisms inappropriate for such cases and directly stated: the plane was shot down in Russian skies," the material says.

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