Russia may have shot down Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243
Intentional official news coverage has been suspect
During a flight from Baku Azerbijian to Grozny Chechnya, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243 made a deadly emergency landing December 25, 2024 near Aktau's Airport in Kazakhstan on the Caspian Sea.
The government spokesperson for Azerbijian, Kenan Zeynalov, Senior Prosecutor of Press Service, Prosecutor General's Office, stated, "..in cooperation with the Prosecutor's Office of Kazakhstan, all versions are being explored in the criminal case, and at this moment we cannot provide any conclusions regarding the investigation."
Meanwhile, during the Summit of Commonwealth of Independent States summit underway in St Petersburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Russian Government would be helping by sending a medical team to Kazakhstan.
Within hours of the crash, Independent experts already agreed the plane was shot down by a missile with a shrapnel warhead, and the likely source of the missile from from a Russian military operation in Chechnya.
Video images taken from inside the plane before the crash, and at the crash site clearly indicate evidence of shrapnel, damage to wing & tail component, and a blown rear maintenance hatch.
Intentional official news coverage has been suspect, and raises questions why the details already known, as well as the clear video evidence, have been totally disregarded within the first 24 hours of official news coverage.
Multiple news outlets, including Singapore (CNA) & South Korea (RoK's Arirang) English-language, government-funded news services, akin to BBC, France24, DW, and USA's Voice of America (VOA), all have fail to provide the footage, and appear to ignore the already known likely cause of the tragic crash.
Arirang Korea:
CNA Singapore:
Footage by passenger inside plane before crash.
As of 6pm GMT December 26, these promjnent global news outlets continue to claim the cause as 'unknown', 'still under investigation', and then claim Bird Strike as the likely cause towards the end of their news articles.
Best coverage for English Speakers would be Blancolirio, a Northern California based a US airlines international passenger plane pilot and avid private aviator ho regularly documents aviation incidents.
Blancolirio's coverage is based upon a longer format by Pilot Blog, a YT channel with ~1.28million subs, hosted by a Swiss based Boeing 737 Captain.
Pilot Blog appears to be the source of the theory of Russians using shrapnel missiles to take down the flight.
The following is Pilot Blog's summary in the Description of the Video, as of 4pm EST 26.12.2024.
"Yes, I speculate for now but I am sure about my version about a Russian missile because we already have evidence.”
“An Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer ERJ-190, registration 4K-AZ65 performing flight J2-8243 from Baku (Azerbaijan) to Grozny (Russia) with 62 passengers and 5 crew, had diverted from Grozny to Aktau (Kazakhstan) due to weather and attempted an emergency landing on Aktau's runway 11 at 11:28L (06:28Z) about one hour after the aborted approach to Grozny. The aircraft was turning onto final approach but impacted ground off the runway and caught fire. Rescue services were able to rescue 32 people alive. 4 bodies were recovered so far.”
“Kazakhstan's Transport Ministry reported 62 passengers and 5 crew were on board of the aircraft, 32 were rescued alive. 4 bodies have been recovered.”
“The airline reported there were 62 passengers (37 Azerbaijani, 16 Russian, 6 Kazakh and 3 Kyrgyz citizens) and 5 crew on board. The aircraft made an emergency landing about 3km (1.6nm) from Aktau's Airport. A hotline has been established. The airline published a list with the names of the occupants.”
“Kazakhstan's Health Services report, 28 survivors were taken to hospitals, 7 of them are in intensive care.”
“Due to GPS jamming and spoofing in the region existing radar data do not tell the true flight path and can not be used to analyse the aircraft's problems."