00:00Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 was scheduled to fly to Grozny in Chechnya
00:05from Baku. It diverted to Aktau in Kazakhstan where it crash-landed. Russia's
00:11President Vladimir Putin has apologized over the incident, but it's still not
00:15clear exactly what happened. We know the plane made repeated attempts to land at
00:19Grozny and that Russian air defenses in the area were repelling a Ukrainian
00:23drone attack. It is likely that GPS signals were being blocked to foil the
00:28drone's navigation. This could have affected the passenger plane too.
00:31Survivors of the crash reported an explosion, which Russia initially
00:36attributed to crashing into a flock of birds. But Azeri President Ilham Aliyev
00:41said it had been hit by fire from the ground. 38 people died as the plane came
00:46down short of the runway. There were 29 survivors.
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