Azerbaijan stated on Monday that Moscow had assured to penalize those responsible for the downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that Baku says was contended by Russian air defenses.The AZAL Embraer 190 jet crash-landed in Kazakhstan on Dec.
25, eliminating 38 of the 67 individuals on board.The occurrence prompted numerous airline companies to cancel flights to Russia, including Israels El Al, which announced Monday it was suspending flights to Moscow till the end of March.Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has required that Moscow accept obligation for wrongly shooting on the aircraft as it attempted to make a set up landing at Grozny airport in southern Russia.Russia has not confirmed that one of its air defense missiles hit the airplane.
President Vladimir Putin told Aliyev in a phone call over the weekend that the systems were active at the time and that he was sorry the event took place in Russian airspace.Azerbaijans prosecutor general reported on Monday that the head of Russias Investigative Committee had informed Baku: Intensive procedures are being carried out to determine the guilty people and bring them to criminal obligation.
Russia has opened a criminal inquiry into the incident.But it has not stated whether it agrees that the aircraft was struck by among its air defense missiles and has not itself said anything about finding or bringing any wrongdoers to justice.Aliyev had actually released an uncommon forthright condemnation of Moscow a close partner of Baku on Sunday.He stated the aircraft was struck by accident but was upset that Russia had actually apparently attempted to hide the reason for the crash.Demanding that Putin admit responsibility, Aliyev also implicated Russia of putting forward alternative theories that plainly revealed the Russian side wished to cover up the problem.
Russia stated Grozny, in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya, was being assaulted by Ukrainian drones when the AZAL airliner approached to make its landing through thick fog.Survivors have explained hearing explosions outside the aircraft, which then diverted more than 400 kilometers (250 miles) across the Caspian Sea towards the Kazakh city of Aktau, where it crash-landed.
Kazakhstan said on Monday it had actually sent out the aircrafts black boxes to Brazil, where Embraer is based, to be evaluated by the Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center, an unit of the Brazilian air force.