Video shows damage inside Azerbaijani plane before fatal crash

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A UGC video from aboard the Embraer jet flying from Azerbaijan to Russia shows passengers wearing oxygen masks before the plane crashed near Aktau, Kazakhstan, on December 25. Visible wing damage is also captured. Footage of the wreckage reveals possible shrapnel damage, prompting speculation that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane may have been hit by air defense systems over Chechnya. Investigations into the crash, which killed 38 people, are ongoing. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov refrained from commenting on claims that an Azerbaijani plane crashed in Kazakhstan was shot down. Asked about the claims that the plane had been fired upon by air defense assets, Peskov told reporters that “it would be wrong to make hypotheses before investigators make their verdict.”

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00:00This UGC video, filmed by a passenger aboard the Embraer jet flying from Azerbaijan to

00:05Russia, shows passengers wearing oxygen masks in the cabin before the plane crashed near

00:10Aktau, Kazakhstan, on December 25.

00:13Visible damage to the wing is also seen in the footage.

00:16Subhankol Rakimov, a passenger who survived the crash, told Russia's TASS news agency

00:21that the crew tried to land the plane in Grozny three times but couldn't.

00:25During the third attempt, he said, there was an explosion outside the plane, not inside.

00:31Rakimov said shrapnel from the explosion pierced his life jacket.

00:35Footage of the wreckage revealed signs of shrapnel damage, leading some aviation experts

00:39to suggest the Azerbaijan Airlines plane may have been struck by air defense systems over

00:44Chechnya.

00:45Investigations into the crash that killed 38 people are ongoing.

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