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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Amelia Neath

Investigators make major discovery over Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash which killed 38

The Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed on Christmas Day killing 38 people suffered external damage and was riddled with holes in its fuselage, a preliminary report revealed.

Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243, which had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s republic of Chechnya, crash-landed a few kilometres short of Aktau airport in Kazakhstan on 25 December 2024.

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