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