"I heard a loud explosion, the oxygen masks fell down and the plane shook," Rinat Assanov told AFP, recalling the moment the Azerbaijan Airlines plane he was on ran into trouble over southern Russia.

The publication of the black box data from an Azerbaijani plane that crashed in Kazakhstan last month has been delayed, a Kazakh official said Friday, after Azerbaijan accused Russia of shooting the ...

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was offering explanations for the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash that had killed 38 people days earlier. Perhaps it was a flock of birds, Mr. Putin said ...

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said the airliner was hit by fire from the ground over Russia and "rendered uncontrollable by electronic warfare." Aliyev accused Russia of trying to "hush up ...

A part of the fuselage of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 lies on the ground near the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, Dec. 26, 2024 (photo from a video released by the office of the Administration ...

Azerbaijan will not completely break away from Russia, but Baku's strong statements indicate that Russia's influence over the region will rapidly decrease. Click here for the full story in Russian.

The Dec. 25 crash killed 38 of the 67 people aboard. LONDON -- Azerbaijani authorities investigating last week's Azerbaijan Airlines crash in Kazakhstan are probing the "disturbing" possibility ...

Azerbaijan's general prosecutor stated that Moscow had promised to identify and punish those at fault for the plane crash which led to 38 deaths Azerbaijan's general prosecutor on Monday stated ...

Azerbaijani authorities investigating last week's Azerbaijan Airlines crash in Kazakhstan are probing the "disturbing" possibility that Russian air traffic controllers may have directed the damaged ...

The Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan this week killing 38 people, was damaged due to a shooting from the ground in Russia, the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday.