On Tuesday, 4 February, Kazakhstan's Ministry of Transport launched a report with preliminary findings relating to the crash of an Azerbaijan Airways aircraft close to town of Aktau on 25 December.

Supply: Tengri Information, a Kazakh media outlet, citing the report, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: The report, spanning 53 pages, notes that the investigation carried out underneath its scope "doesn’t goal to ascertain legal responsibility or fault".

The doc consists of images of international objects, together with metallic fragments, discovered embedded within the wreckage.

It emphasises that the knowledge introduced is "preliminary and could also be refined or expanded as additional research and materials critiques are carried out".

The report exhibits that an early evaluation of the Azerbaijan Airways Embraer 190's stays revealed a number of puncture and non-puncture damages of varied sizes and styles throughout the plane's tail part, vertical stabiliser, horizontal stabilisers, and rudders. The plane's left engine, wing, and different parts all sustained related injury.

Principal hearth website (proper wing, nostril and central sections of the fuselage, wing centre part and left wing) Screenshot: report revealed by Kazakhstan's Ministry of Transport

The report notes that a number of the damages have an ideal rectangular form. A substantial variety of international objects recovered from the wreckage have been despatched for forensic examine.

Harm to the left facet of the tail part. Screenshot: report revealed by Kazakhstan's Ministry of Transport

Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Transport additionally introduced a flight reconstruction outlining occasions following the emergence of a "crucial state of affairs". Moreover, the report consists of knowledge from the plane's black field recorder.

Flight reconstruction previous to the crucial state of affairs Screenshot: report revealed by Kazakhstan's Ministry of Transport

The flight knowledge revealed two loud impacts throughout the flight. A flight attendant reported an explosion involving two airplane seats.

The report states that earlier than the plane struck the bottom, its hydraulic methods 1, 2 and three, in addition to {the electrical} wiring for the stabiliser drive, had been broken – doubtless by exterior affect.

The investigative fee is constant to conduct an in depth examination of the injury to the plane’s construction. A last report on the crash might be ready upon completion of those investigations.

A part of international metallic objects extracted from the left stabiliser and auxiliary energy unit (APU) compartment Screenshot: report revealed by Kazakhstan's Ministry of Transport

A part of international metallic objects extracted from the left stabiliser and auxiliary energy unit (APU) compartment. Screenshot: report

Examples of extracted international metallic objects. Screenshot: report revealed by Kazakhstan's Ministry of Transport

Background:

• On 25 December, an Embraer plane operated by Azerbaijan Airways, en route from Baku to Grozny, crashed close to Aktau, Kazakhstan. The crash resulted in 38 fatalities.
• On the time, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev acknowledged that the aircraft had been shot down from the bottom. He additionally asserted that Russia ought to acknowledge its duty, situation a well timed apology to Azerbaijan – a rustic thought-about a good friend – and talk this publicly.
• Rashad Nabiyev, Azerbaijan's Minister of Digital Growth and Transport, talked about that eyewitness testimonies and puncture marks on the aircraft's fuselage indicated exterior interference, with the precise sort of weapon was decided by the investigation.
• On 4 February, a supply inside Azerbaijan’s authorities instructed Reuters that that they had conclusive proof that the aircraft was downed by a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system.

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