BAKU (Reuters) -Two passengers on the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan told Reuters that they heard at ...

The plane was originally scheduled to travel from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus. Russian news agencies said the plane had been rerouted due to ...

Later, Russian and Azerbaijani officials suggested the plane had been rerouted due to fog or bad weather in Grozny. Then Russia also said Ukrainian drones targeting the Grozny area were a factor.

Russia's Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a “tragic incident." ...

The plane, an Embraer 190 operated by Azerbaijan Airlines, was traveling from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Grozny, Russia, when it crashed on the shore of the Caspian Sea near Aktau in Kazakhstan.

Flight attendant Zulfugar Asadov said landing was denied in Grozny due to fog so the pilot circled − at which point there were bangs outside the aircraft. "The pilot had just lifted the plane up ...

Two U.S. military officials told NBC News that they had intelligence indicating that Russians may have misidentified the ...

"The facts are that the Azerbaijani civilian plane was damaged from outside on Russian territory, near the city of Grozny, and practically lost control," he said, citing fire from the ground for ...

Airlines including British Airways and Virgin Atlantic continue to fly a matter of miles from the GPS-jammed Russian region ...

The plane was struck by a Russian Pantsir-S air defense system and its communications were frozen by electronic warfare systems when approaching Grozny, one of the sources said. Russian President ...

"All [the survivors] without exception stated they heard three blast sounds when the aircraft was above Grozny," said Rashad Nabiyev. The plane is thought to have come under fire from Russian air ...

Mr Aliyev said: “The information provided to me is that the plane changed its course between Baku and Grozny due to worsening ...