The cause of the plane crash in Kazakhstan is still unknown

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2024-12-26 11:10:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

After a passenger plane crashed in Kazakhstan with several dead, the cause of the accident remains unknown. The airline, Azerbaijan Airlines, and the Russian Civil Aviation Authority said preliminary information suggested the pilot decided to make an emergency landing after the plane was hit by a bird. On the other hand, the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, said that according to his information, the plane changed its route due to bad weather.

The Embraer 190 plane took off from Azerbaijan's capital Baku in the morning and was scheduled to fly about an hour to Grozny in the Russian republic of Chechnya. However, the plane with flight number J2-8243 could not land in Grozny and therefore departed for an alternative airport, Aliyev said. However, it remains unclear why the car veered hundreds of kilometers off course. Aktau is located on the other side of the Caspian Sea - opposite Azerbaijan and Russia.

The cause of the plane crash in Kazakhstan is still unknown

"External impact more realistic scenario"

According to aviation expert Heinrich Großbongardt, fog or a flock of birds is unlikely to be the cause of the crash. "The realistic scenario is an influence from outside," he told Tagesschau. "The aircraft was extremely damaged and was uncontrollable. This is not something that is caused by a flock of birds, for example, where the engines fail, but the aircraft remains controllable."

Russian military bloggers did not rule out that the plane could have entered the areas over the North Caucasus where Ukrainian drones were fighting in the morning.

Aircraft tracking platform Flightradar24 reported that the plane had major problems with GPS signals, as it was "not sending good ADS-B data". This is a flight safety control system that serves to indicate aircraft movements in airspace and transmit aircraft position data, Russia has been repeatedly accused of deliberately jamming GPS signals in the region.

The cause of the plane crash in Kazakhstan is still unknown

The government of Kazakhstan announced that it would cooperate with Azerbaijan in the investigation of the downing of the plane. Among other things, the investigations concern claims of "violations of safety rules" in air traffic. In the evening, rescue teams discovered the car's flight recorder, also known as the black box./ DW