Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on February 4, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 26, 2026
An Azerbaijani plane crash in December was caused by a Russian Pantsir-S missile, killing 38 people near Aktau, Kazakhstan.
BAKU (Reuters) - An Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed in December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan was hit by a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system, an Azerbaijani government source told Reuters on Tuesday.
Thirty-eight people were killed when the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane crashed on Dec. 25 near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after re-routing across the Caspian Sea from southern Russia.
"The Azerbaijani side possesses a fragment of a Pantsir-S missile which was extracted from the aircraft and identified through international expertise," the source said.
(Reporting by Nailia Bagirova; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
The article discusses the crash of an Azerbaijani plane in December, which was hit by a Russian Pantsir-S missile.
The crash was caused by a Russian Pantsir-S air defense missile, as confirmed by Azerbaijani authorities.
The crash occurred near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after the plane was rerouted from Russia.
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