The 53-page preliminary report published by Kazakhstan's transport ministry included photographs of the plane.

The crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer E-190 in December 2024 was attributed to damage “probably caused by external objects”, says preliminary report.

On December 25, an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane crashed in Kazakhstan, killing more than half of the 67 people on board. The flight had been diverted to Aktau in the country’s west for an emergency landing after a failed attempt to land in Grozny,

The Ministry of Digital Development and Transport of the Republic of Azerbaijan has published a preliminary report on the investigation of the crash of the Embraer 190 passenger plane belonging to AZAL near Aktau Airport.

An Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed in December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan was hit by a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system, an Azerbaijani government source told Reuters on Tuesday.

Russian civil aviation authorities said Wednesday that they have not been granted access to the “foreign objects” that damaged an Azerbaijani jet before it crashed in Kazakhstan last month. Kazakhstan’s Transportation Ministry on Tuesday published preliminary findings of its investigation into the crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243.

An Azerbaijani passenger aircraft that crashed last December was hit by a Russian Pantsir-S air defense system, according to Tuesday report by Reuters. The plane had been diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan before the incident occurred.