Azerbaijan Airlines flight to Russia turns back to Baku after airspace closure, TASS says
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on December 27, 2024
1 min readLast updated: January 27, 2026

Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on December 27, 2024
1 min readLast updated: January 27, 2026

An Azerbaijan Airlines flight to Russia returned to Baku due to a closure of southern Russian airspace. A previous flight crash in Kazakhstan is under investigation.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - An Azerbaijan Airlines flight to the southern Russian town of Mineralnie Vody turned back to Baku on Friday after being told a chunk of airspace in southern Russia had been closed, Russia's TASS news agency reported.
An Azerbaijani Airlines flight from Baku to Russia's Grozny crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Russia has said it's important to wait for an investigation to finish its work to understand what happened. Four Azerbaijani sources told Reuters on Thursday the plane had been struck by Russian air defences.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Felix Light; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
The main topic is the Azerbaijan Airlines flight returning to Baku after a Russian airspace closure and the related crash investigation.
The flight returned to Baku because a portion of the airspace in southern Russia was closed.
The previous Azerbaijani flight crashed in Kazakhstan, and an investigation is ongoing.
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