Azerbaijan’s president accuses Moscow of trying to hide the causes of the plane crash

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev has accused Moscow of trying to cover up the fact that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed on December 25 in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people on board, came under fire from Russian territory and demanded a public apology from Russia. . As the Russian anti-aircraft missile scenario appears to be confirmed, the Azeri president said today on Azerbaijan’s state TV that “the fact is that the Azeri aircraft was externally hit over Russian territory (…) the tail of the aircraft was severely hit by fire coming from from the ground,” said Ilham Aliyev in his television interview, which was also broadcast by the state agency Azertag news. He also alleged that the aircraft was rendered uncontrollable by military means of electronic jamming. Ilham Aliyev said that the different versions of events presented by Russia after the crash “clearly show that the Russian side tried to smother the case.” “The […]
Source: News Beast

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