“Based mostly on the opinion of consultants and on the phrases of eyewitnesses, it may be concluded that there was exterior interference,” Azerbaijani’s transport minister, Rashad Nabiyev, informed reporters.
“It’s vital to search out out from what sort of weapon,” he added, citing stories from survivors of listening to “three explosions” because the aircraft was over Grozny.
Azerbaijan Airways mentioned it had suspended flights to 10 Russian airports and that preliminary outcomes steered the crash of Baku-Grozny flight J2-8243 was “attributable to bodily and technical exterior interference”.
The pinnacle of Russia’s civil aviation company, Dmitry Yadrov, mentioned in an earlier assertion that “the state of affairs on this present day and at these hours within the space of Grozny airport was very complicated”.