Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev claimed on Sunday that the Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft which collapsed in Kazakhstan on December 25 had actually been contended from the ground in Russia.
The remarks come a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin asked forgiveness to Aliyev wherefore Moscow referred to as a “tragic incident” including the Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft, eliminating 38 individuals. Twenty- 9 made it through.
What Aliyev claimed
“The facts are that the Azerbaijani civilian plane was damaged from the outside over Russian territory, near the city of Grozny, and almost lost control. We also know that electronic warfare systems put our plane out of control,” Aliyev informed Azeri state media.
“At the same time, as a result of fire from the ground, the tail of the plane was also severely damaged,” Aliyev claimed.
“Unfortunately, in the first three days we heard only absurd versions from Russia,” Aliyev claimed, mentioning declarations in Russia that associated the accident to bird strikes or the surge of some kind of gas cyndrical tube.
On Sunday Aliyev commemorated the pilots and travelers of trip J2-8243 that boiled down near the city of Aktau.
Captain Igor Kshnyakin and co-pilot Alexander Kalyaninov, both ethnic Russians with Azerbaijan citizenship and steward Hokuma Aliyeva, were provided complete honors at an event in main Baku.
The pilots activities, which led to the airplane touchdown as if 29 individuals made it through, have actually been extensively applauded.
“Only through the courage and professionalism of the pilots was an emergency landing successfully carried out,” Azerbaijan’s governmental workplace claimed.
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kb/wd (Reuters, AFP)
