The Embraer 190 aircraft, made in Brazil, was touring from Baku to Grozny in Russia when it was hijacked and crashed in Kazakhstan.
Brazilian Air Force investigators are working with colleagues from three different nations to investigate black field information from Azerbaijan Airlines planes that crashed in Kazakhstan on December 25, killing 38 individuals.
The Brazilian Air Force stated in a press release that 9 international investigators met with its specialists on the air crash investigation and prevention heart within the capital Brasilia to work on information extracted from the flight recorder.
Kazakhstan has three investigators within the group, whereas one other six are from Azerbaijan and Russia.
Investigators in Brasilia are engaged on the recordings, cockpit voice and flight information recorders of the aircraft, the Brazilian Air Force added.
There is not any deadline for investigators to make public their findings, which is able to finally come from Kazakh authorities.
“The extraction, acquiring and validation of flight recorder information will happen within the shortest time potential,” the Brazilian Air Force stated.
The Embraer 190 aircraft, made in Brazil, was en route from Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, to Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated the airliner was hit by floor hearth over Russia and “rendered uncontrollable by digital warfare.”
Aliyev accused Russia of attempting to “hush up” the difficulty for a number of days, saying he was “disturbed and shocked” by the variations of occasions put ahead by Russian officers.
The aircraft was reportedly denied permission to land at two close by Russian airports and was as a substitute diverted throughout the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan the place it crashed close to town of Aktau.
Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to Aliyev for what he referred to as a “tragic incident” however didn’t admit that Moscow was accountable.
Putin’s apology to Aliyev got here as allegations grew that the aircraft had been shot down by Russian air protection methods in an try to repel a Ukrainian drone assault close to Grozny.
The Kremlin stated air protection methods have been firing close to Grozny, the place the aircraft tried to land, to deflect a Ukrainian drone assault.
