The Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed on December 25 is thought to have come under fire from Russian air defence systems before being diverted across the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan, where it crashed with the loss of 38 lives.
Azerbaijan's transport minister has said the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed on December 25 was subjected to "external interference" and damaged inside and out, as it tried to land in Russia's southern republic of Chechnya.
The plane is thought to have come under fire from Russian air defence systems before being diverted across the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan, where it crashed with the loss of 38 lives.
The Kremlin has refused to comment, but the head of Russia's civil aviation agency said the situation in Grozny was "very complicated" at the time and a closed-skies protocol had been put in place.
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