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December 26, 2024

Azerbaijani Airlines Crash in Kazakhstan Leaves Behind 38 Dead, 29 Survivors
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In Kazakhstan, 38 passengers were killed Wednesday when an Azerbaijani
airliner with 67 people on board crashed near the city of Aktau.
Twenty-nine survivors were hospitalized. The Embraer 190 passenger jet
had been en route from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to the Russian
city of Grozny when it veered hundreds of miles off its scheduled route
before crashing on the opposite shore of the Caspian Sea. A Russian
civil aviation official said a preliminary investigation revealed a bird
strike led pilots to attempt to divert the flight. But a Ukrainian
official said Russia had used a surface-to-air missile system to shoot
the plane down, after mistaking it for a Ukrainian drone. That claim was
bolstered by footage from the crash site appearing to show shrapnel
damage to the plane's tail section.


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