The black box of the plane Azerbaijan Airlines that crashed into Kazakhstan this week, which is believed to have been hit by Russian anti-aircraft missileswill be sent to Brazil for investigation, Kazakh authorities reported on Sunday.
The Accident Investigation Commission “decided to send the black boxes to the Center for Research and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (CENIPA) in Brazil, which is also the country where Embraer aircraft are manufactured,” the Kazakh Ministry of Transport said in a statement after the accident that left 38 dead.
On the other hand, the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyevhe demanded this Sunday from Russia to finish assuming its responsibility, total or partial, for this week’s Embraer 190 plane accident. Azerbaijan Airlines after ensuring that The device lost control while flying over the Russian region of Grozny and? received fire from the ground when the Russian air defense was repelling a Ukrainian air attack in the area.
Aliyev made these statements a day after having a telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin in which The Russian president apologized after admitting that the incident began in Russian airspace —The plane ended up crashing in Kazakhstan three kilometers from the airport in the Kazakh city of Aktau, leaving 38 dead and 29 injuredmost of them serious—although he did not fully assume responsibility for what happened.
“The facts are the following: that an Azerbaijani civilian plane was shot at from outside while flying over Russian territorynear the city of Grozny; “that it almost lost control then and that it ended up losing it due to electronic warfare systems, and that, at the same time, its tail was seriously damaged by shots from the ground,” he said in statements reported by the official Azeri news agency. Azertag.
The president reiterated that Your country has presented three fundamental demands. First, some Russian apologies “that were presented” in Saturday’s conversation. Secondly and thirdly, he has warned, “The Russian side must confess its guilt and must punish the guiltyhold them criminally responsible and pay a compensation to the State of Azerbaijan and the injured passengers and crew.”
“I hope our other conditions are accepted. All these conditions are fair. “There is no extraordinary demand or problem here and it is based on international experience and normal human behavior,” he said. Aliyevwho expressed confidence that ““The plane was not shot down intentionally.”
Aliyev also criticized the initial reactions of the Russian Government to the plane crash, which occurred on Christmas Day. “For the first three days we heard nothing but meaningless versions from Russia.”he lamented before remembering that “The fuselage was full of holes.”with which the initial theory that it collided with a flock of birds was completely discarded but, despite everything, some Russian official circles decided to promote this hypothesis anyway.
“One of the things that saddened and surprised us was that Russian official organizations presented versions related to the explosion of a gas cylindermaking it very clear that They wanted to cover up the matter“, denounced the president.
(With information from AFP)
