Experts began to analyze the "black boxes" of the Azerbaijani liner hit by a Russian missile
Brazilian specialists have begun studying the "black boxes" of the Embraer 190 passenger liner of Azerbaijan Airlines. The analysis is conducted in the presence of investigators from Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Russia.
The Embraer 190, which was flying from Baku to Grozny and crashed on December 25 in the Kazakh city of Aktau, was hit by a missile fired by a Russian anti-aircraft missile complex. Of the 67 people on board, 29 survived.
Earlier, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said that the plane was damaged as a result of shelling from the ground on the territory of the Russian Federation. He demanded that Moscow admit guilt, punish the guilty and pay compensation.
Prior to that, during a telephone conversation with Aliyev, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, apologized, however, without admitting guilt in the shelling of the airliner, but only because "a tragic incident occurred in the airspace of Russia." In the speech, the head of state mentioned the work of Russian air defense equipment, but did not admit that it was precisely this that caused the plane to crash. However, Aliyev apparently considered even these apologies to be late, since in his subsequent statement he recalled that initially the Russian official structures put forward the version about the explosion of a gas cylinder, which showed their intentions to cover up the issue, and this, in his opinion, "doesn't matter to anyone does honors."
