having spent over 15,000 hours behind the controls of aircraft, of which over 11,000 hours were in the captain's seat. Read also: Azerbaijan air tragedy: Claims of Russian missile strike ...

25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault. By Anton Troianovski Reporting from Baku, Azerbaijan It was a tense conversation between two authoritarian ...

The crash of an Azerbaijani passenger plane in December was caused by a strike from a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system. Azerbaijan possesses a fragment of the missile as evidence. Source: Reuters, ...

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham ... for their role in downing the plane with an air defense system brought into Ukraine from a Russian military base. Associated Press writer Aida Sultanova in ...

Osprey Flight Solutions, an aviation security firm based in the United Kingdom, warned its clients that the “Azerbaijan Airlines flight was likely shot down by a Russian military air-defense ...

The information obtained by Euronews corresponds with a news report from Azerbaijan-based international news channel AnewZ, which quotes a Russian military blogger who claims that “the damage to the ...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed this week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally, and criticized Moscow for trying to "hush ...

He expressed the resolve while talking to a high-level defence delegation of Azerbaijan, led by Deputy Minister of Defence ... of training cooperation saying that a large contingent of Azeri air and ...

Vladimir Putin said Russian air defence was active when an Azerbaijani Airlines plane tried to land in Russia's south before it crashed, according to the Kremlin. The Russian leader did not ...

“Baku expects the Russian side to confess to the shooting down of the Azerbaijani aircraft,” a source said. Russian air defences downed an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan ...

Azerbaijan on Thursday observed a nationwide day of mourning for the victims of the air crash that killed 38 people and left all 29 survivors injured as speculation mounted about a possible cause of ...