It crashed on Wednesday in southwestern Kazakhstan’s city of Aktau on the Caspian Sea. The plane was carrying 67 people from Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The flight went down in an area where Russia has frequently activated air defense ...

Azerbaijan Airlines’ Embraer 190 was en route from Azerbaijani ... EMBR3 told the Associated Press in a statement that the company is “ready to assist all relevant authorities.” Russia’s civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, said that preliminary ...

There are early indications that a Russian anti-aircraft system may have struck the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, a U.S. official told ABC News.

Preliminary findings of an investigation into the crash of an Azerbaijan plane have indicated the disaster was the work of Russian air defences.

A U.S. official tells NBC News there are early indications that the passenger plane that crashed in Kazakhstan may have been hit by a Russian anti-aircraft system. The official said if it turns out to be the case,

A US official said on Thursday that early indications suggest a Russian anti-aircraft system struck an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38

The Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 flight left Baku, Azerbaijan, on Christmas to Grozny, Russia. Instead, the plane crashed in Aktau, Kazakhstan.

"No one claims that it was done on purpose," an Azerbaijan official told Reuters. They added their government "expects the Russian side to confess."

Officials in Russia and Kazakhstan are urging people to wait for an investigation into the deadly Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash before assigning blame.

Footage of the wrecked fuselage appeared to indicate shrapnel damage and some aviation experts suggested the Azerbaijani Airlines plane may have been been hit by air defence systems over the Russian republic of Chechnya.

Azerbaijan officials claimed Thursday that Russian anti-aircraft fire brought down their passenger jet over Kazakhstan on Christmas Day, allegedly after electronic warfare systems disabled the aircraft’s communications and Russian forces mistook it for a Ukrainian attack drone,