The Kremlin said Friday it would not comment until the end of the investigation into the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane, while numerous media publications blame an air defense missile Russian.
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“An investigation is underway. We believe that we have no right to comment before the conclusions of the investigation,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
The Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 aircraft with 67 people on board was flying on Wednesday between Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, and Grozny, capital of the Russian Caucasian republic of Chechnya.
It crashed and caught fire in still unclear circumstances near Aktau, a port on the Caspian Sea located in western Kazakhstan and far from its destination, killing 38 people, according to the authorities of this country. Central Asia.
“An investigation is underway to establish whether it was a Russian air defense strike or another cause,” Azerbaijani MP Rassim Moussabekov told AFP, while emphasizing that “we see in the photos and “The videos show the plane’s fuselage with holes that are normally caused by air defense missiles.”
The trail of a Russian anti-aircraft missile is the preferred explanation for this crash, an American official and media reports citing Azerbaijani sources said earlier.
None of the countries involved have yet publicly confirmed this version, fueled by images of impacts on the wreckage of the aircraft, and according to which the aircraft was shot during its approach to the airport. destination in Russia, before managing to fly to Kazakhstan where it crashed.
