“External physical and technical interference” was experienced by the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, the airline said, citing preliminary results of an investigation into the incident.
At least 38 people were killed when flight J2-8243 came down near the city of Aktau after diverting from an area of Russia in which Russian air defence systems had been used against Ukrainian drone strikes in recent months.
The Embraer passenger jet had flown from Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to Grozny, in Russia’s southern Chechnya region, before veering off hundreds of miles across the Caspian Sea.
Four sources with knowledge of the…