@flightradar24     Flight #J28243 that crashed near Aktau Airport in Kazakhstan is an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer ERJ-190 with registration 4K-AZ65. #J28243 took off from Baku at 03:55 UTC time and was flying to Grozny. The aircraft was exposed to strong GPS jamming which made the aircraft transmit bad ADS-B data. At 04:40 UTC we lost the ADS-B signal. At 06:07 UTC we picked up the ADS-B signal again before it crashed at 06:28 UTC.

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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. 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. 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. 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. 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). ''

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….“

Following the crash of its plane, Azerbaijan Airlines cancelled all Baku-Grozny-Baku and Baku-Makhachkala-Baku flights. 

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)