Azerbaijan’s flag provider introduced Friday that it will certainly put on hold trips to numerous Russian flight terminals, pointing out prospective trip security threats after a crash of among its airplanes that numerous specialists criticized on Russian air protection fire.
Azerbaijan Airlines’ Embraer 190 was flying from Azerbaijan’s resources of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus on Wednesday when it was drawn away for factors still uncertain and crashed while making an attempt to land in Aktau in Kazakhstan after flying eastern throughout the Caspian Sea. The accident eliminated 38 individuals and left all 29 survivors hurt.
Authorities in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia were tight-lipped concerning a feasible root cause of the accident pending a main probe, yet a legislator in Azerbaijan criticized Moscow. Rasim Musabekov informed the Azerbaijani information firm Turan on Thursday that the airplane was terminated on while overhead over Grozny, and prompted Russia to use a main apology.
Inquired about Musabekov’s declaration, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov decreased to comment, claiming that it will certainly depend on detectives to establish the root cause of the accident.
” The air case is being examined and we do not think we can make any kind of evaluations till the verdicts are made as an outcome of the examination,” Peskov stated in a teleconference with press reporters.
Private Investigators from Azerbaijan are operating in Grozny as component of the accident probe, Azerbaijani District attorney General’s workplace stated in a declaration.
As the main accident probe began, some aeronautics specialists mentioned that openings seen in the airplane’s tail area recommended that it might have come under attack from Russian air protection systems repeling a Ukrainian drone assault.
Ukrainian drones had actually formerly assaulted Grozny, the resources of the Russian republic of Chechnya, and various other areas in the nation’s North Caucasus. An authorities in Chechnya stated an additional drone assault on the area was warded off on Wednesday, although government authorities really did not report it.
FlightRadar24 stated in an on the internet message that the airplane had actually dealt with “solid general practitioner jamming” that hindered trip monitoring information. Russia has actually thoroughly made use of advanced obstructing tools to repel drone strikes.
Adhering to Wednesday’s suspension of trips from Baku to Grozy and Makhachkala, Azerbaiajan Airlines on Friday additionally stopped solution to even more Russian cities, reducing air web links to Mineralnye Vody, Sochi, Volgograd, Ufa, Samara.
It stated in a declaration that the trips will certainly be put on hold “complying with the initial outcomes of the examination right into the accident of the Embraer 190 airplane operating trip J2-8243 from Baku to Grozny, triggered by physical and technological disturbance, and taking into consideration prospective threats to trip security.”
The business will certainly remain to run trips to 6 various other Russian cities consisting of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kazan. Those cities additionally have actually been consistently targeted by Ukrainian drone strikes in the past.
Kazakhstan’s Qazaq Air additionally introduced Friday that it was putting on hold trips from Astana to the Russian city of Yekaterinburg in the Ural Hills for a month.
The day in the past, Israeli El Al put on hold trips from Tel Aviv to Moscow pointing out “advancements in Russia’s airspace.” The airline company stated it would certainly reassess the scenario following week to determine whether to return to the trips.
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Associated Press author Aida Sultanova added to this record from London.
