Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Brazil’s air force has extracted the data from two black box recorders belonging to a crashed Azerbaijan Airlines plane that Baku claims was downed by Russia on Christmas Day, killing 38 of the 67 people on board. The Brazilian-made Embraer 190 crash-landed in Kazakhstan after being diverted from a scheduled landing in the Chechen capital, Grozny, in southern Russia. Azerbaijan believes the plane was shot down by Russian air defences, which Moscow says were operational in the area at the time. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, apologised that the ‘incident’ occurred in his country’s airspace but has not responded to claims the plane was hit by Russian weapons. The flight recorders, which capture cockpit dialogue and flight data from the plane, were analysed in Brasília, but Kazakhstan is in charge of releasing the results.” (01/06/25)