❗️/1. Russian air defense most likely caused the crash of an Embraer 190 passenger plane during UAV attack on Chechnya:
An Embraer 190 passenger plane belonging to Azerbaijan Airlines crashed this morning. 67 passengers of which 5 crew members were on board. 32 people survived the crash. All survivors were in the tail section of the plane. 🧵
An Embraer 190 passenger plane belonging to Azerbaijan Airlines crashed this morning. 67 passengers of which 5 crew members were on board. 32 people survived the crash. All survivors were in the tail section of the plane. 🧵
/2. The plane took off from Baku at 6:50 Moscow time and was scheduled to land in Grozny at 8:20. But just before landing in Grozny, the plane turned around and flew across the Caspian Sea towards Kazakhstan. Where it crashed. 
/3. Just as the plane was approaching Grozny, an air raid alert was issued in the region due to a kamikaze drone attack. And Russian air defense was actively engaged.
/4. The tail section of the plane survived the crash and witnesses were able to capture on videos damage on the tail that is typical of fragments from air defense missiles.
/5. Some passengers have already managed to give short testimonies and comment on what happened. Thus, Zaur Mamedov, one of the survivors of the plane crash, says:
“For the third time, something exploded. There was an explosion - I wouldn’t say that it was inside the plane. Where I was sitting, the lining next to me flew off.”
He added that he reached for his life jacket, and there was a hole in it:
“I took the jacket, and I look: there was a hole in the jacket - a piece of shrapnel had pierced it. After this explosion, right between my legs - somewhere there - this piece of shrapnel flew in and hit me. It pierced the jacket right through.”
(Video shows first moments filmed by survivors after the crash)
“For the third time, something exploded. There was an explosion - I wouldn’t say that it was inside the plane. Where I was sitting, the lining next to me flew off.”
He added that he reached for his life jacket, and there was a hole in it:
“I took the jacket, and I look: there was a hole in the jacket - a piece of shrapnel had pierced it. After this explosion, right between my legs - somewhere there - this piece of shrapnel flew in and hit me. It pierced the jacket right through.”
(Video shows first moments filmed by survivors after the crash)
/6. Following the crash of its plane, Azerbaijan Airlines cancelled all Baku-Grozny-Baku and Baku-Makhachkala-Baku flights.
(Video from the crash site)
(Video from the crash site)
/7. The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kazakhstan reports that 29 people were hospitalized after the plane crash near Aktau: 15 citizens of Azerbaijan, 9 Russians, 2 Kyrgyz, the citizenship of 3 more people is being clarified. 38 people died, the Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported (Video from the plane before the crash)
/8. Even channels of many Russian propagandists do not hide that they are inclined to believe that plane was damaged by Russian air defences.
For example one of Russian telegram channels associated with the Russian military aviation writes the following:
“Based on this video, it can be said that this explosion is not from inside of the plane.
Does this look like an SAM system explosion?
I can definitely answer - yes.
This is exactly what the skin of the aircraft looks like after a SAM missile explosion….“
For example one of Russian telegram channels associated with the Russian military aviation writes the following:
“Based on this video, it can be said that this explosion is not from inside of the plane.
Does this look like an SAM system explosion?
I can definitely answer - yes.
This is exactly what the skin of the aircraft looks like after a SAM missile explosion….“
/9. Video from the Embraer E190 cabin during the flight before the crash.
A pool of blood and a punctured fuselage of the plane are visible
A pool of blood and a punctured fuselage of the plane are visible
/10. Video from the Embraer E190 cabin during the flight before the crash.
A life jacket pierced by shrapnel.
A life jacket pierced by shrapnel.
/11. More videos of the shrapnel damage to the fuselage of the crashed Embraer E190 appeared in the media.
/12. Video from inside of the plane filmed before the crash. Some of the damage caused by shrapnel is visibl
/13. Longer video of the last minutes of an Embraer E190 passenger plane.
/14. New footage of the Embraer E190 passenger plane crash site filmed by one of the surviving passengers.
A good view of the surviving tail section of the plane filmed from all sides.
A good view of the surviving tail section of the plane filmed from all sides.
/15. Azerbaijani government sources have exclusively confirmed that missile fired from a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system caused the Azerbaijan Airlines plane Embraer E190 crash in Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday! - Euronews article.
euronews.com/2024/12/26/exc…
(The photo shows the remains of one of the engines of the Pantsir-S1 missile, found in Grozny on the day of the incident. As well as additional illustrative images of the Pantsir-S1 air defense system and its missile.
The part of the missile shown in the photo from Grozny is the missile engine. It separates from the missile after launch.)
euronews.com/2024/12/26/exc…
(The photo shows the remains of one of the engines of the Pantsir-S1 missile, found in Grozny on the day of the incident. As well as additional illustrative images of the Pantsir-S1 air defense system and its missile.
The part of the missile shown in the photo from Grozny is the missile engine. It separates from the missile after launch.)
/16. Adding official Flightradar24 data on the Embraer E190 flight altitude throughout the entire flight route.
You can see the moment where the plane began to descend from cruising altitude to land in Grozny.
And the probable moment when damage to the aircraft was caused. When the aircraft began to constantly gain and lose altitude in an attempt by the pilots to maintain control of the aircraft.
You can see the moment where the plane began to descend from cruising altitude to land in Grozny.
And the probable moment when damage to the aircraft was caused. When the aircraft began to constantly gain and lose altitude in an attempt by the pilots to maintain control of the aircraft.
/17. Reuters now also confirms that Russian shot down Embraer E190 passenger aircraft.
Read the article: reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
Read the article: reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
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