Investigators make major discovery over Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash which killed 38 ‘Foreign metal objects’ removed from Azerbaijan plane that crashed last year, a report states.
Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised to his Azerbaijani counterpart over the plane crash in Russian airspace in December.
Four sources with knowledge of Azerbaijan’s preliminary investigations previously told Reuters in December that the investigations found Russian air defences were responsible for the crash.
One of the Azerbaijani sources told the news agency that preliminary results indicated that the plane had been struck by a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system.
“Vladimir Putin apologised for the tragic incident that occurred in Russian airspace and once again expressed his deep and sincere condolences to the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to the injured,” an official Kremlin statement said.
