Chilling detail explains 'truth' of horror Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash which killed 38
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Chilling details continue to emerge following the crash of doomed Azerbaijan Airlines where at least 38 people died. Footage of the disaster showed the 190 aircraft bursting into flames as it landed in a field near Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday morning local time, hundreds of miles off its original route. The flight took off from Baku in Azerbaijan and was due to land in Grozy, in Russia's southern Chechnya region.
Clips shared on social media platform Telegram appeared to show numerous holes in the plane's wreckage. Speculation ran rife online with some claiming the damage appeared to have been caused by shelling or an explosion with shrapnel. While Russian state-controlled media has sought to play down the incident, claiming the most likely cause of was due to a strike caused by a flock of birds. But Ukraine's head of The National Security and Defence Council's Centre for Countering Disinformation shared a different hypothesis.
Taking to X/Twitter on Christmas Day, Andriy Kovalenko said: "This morning, an Embraer 190 aircraft of an Azerbaijani airline, flying from Baku to Grozny, was shot down by a Russian air defence system. However, admitting this is inconvenient for everyone, so efforts will be made to cover it up, even the holes in the remaining parts of the aircraft.
"There is also video footage from inside the plane during the flight, showing punctured life vests and other damage. Russia should have closed the airspace over Grozny but failed to do so. The plane was damaged by the Russians and was sent to Kazakhstan instead of being urgently landed in Grozny to save lives.".
