Russian anti-aircraft fire could have caused a plane to crash in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day, according to US and regional officials.
The Azerbaijan Airlines flight was en route from Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to Grozny in Chechnya, southern Russia, when it diverted and crash-landed in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people. Twenty-nine passengers survived.
Most of those on the plane, an Embraer 190, were Azerbaijani citizens. There were also 16 Russians onboard and several citizens of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
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