Increasing speculation in Russian media that Azerbaijan Airlines flight was shot down by Russian air defenses

[Dennis Donovan]

Yaroslav Trofimov
Increasing speculation in Russian media that the Baku-Grozny Azerbaijan Airlines flight was shot down by Russian air defenses that mistook it for a Ukrainian drone. Footage of the damage to the fuselage.
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10:06 AM · Dec 25, 2024

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(Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof - Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal.)

[LeftInTX]

1. Weird

[Dennis Donovan]

2. More Info from WaPo:

Kazakhstan says at least 28 survived in Azerbaijan Airlines' plane crash. Over 30 are likely dead

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Flight-tracking data from FlightRadar24.com showed the aircraft making what appeared to be a figure-right once nearing the airport in Aktau, its altitude moving up and down substantially over the last minutes of the flight before impacting the ground.

FlightRadar24 separately said in an online post that the aircraft had faced “strong GPS jamming” which “ made the aircraft transmit bad ADS-B data”, referring to the information that allows flight-tracking websites to follow planes in flight. Russia has been blamed in the past for jamming GPS transmissions in the wider region.

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[EX500rider]

3. Video of the crash

https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3le4g2xiqv22e

[EX500rider]

4. And more looks like shrapnel damage to me: