By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-12-29 18:26:23 | Updated at 2025-01-01 15:57:19
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The black box from the Azerbaijan Airlines aeroplane that crashed in Kazakhstan this week, believed to have been hit by Russian anti-aircraft missiles, is being delivered to Brazil for investigation, Kazakh authorities said on Sunday.
The Accident Investigation Commission “decided to send the flight recorders to the Center for the Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (CENIPA) in Brazil, which is also the country that manufactures the Embraer aircraft”, the Kazakh transport ministry said in a statement following the crash that left 38 dead.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday the plane had been damaged by accidental shooting from the ground in Russia, adding that some in Russia had lied about the cause of the disaster.
A Kremlin statement did not say Russia had shot down the plane, only noting a criminal case had been opened.
“Our plane was shot down by accident,” Aliyev said on state television on Sunday, adding that the plane had come under some sort of electronic jamming and had then been shot at while it was approaching the southern Russian city of Grozny.
