Azerbaijan is preparing documents for filing in international courts against Russia in connection with the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) plane at the end of 2024. This was announced by the country’s President Ilgam Aliyev, Minval newspaper reported.
“The President said that the situation with the incident around the AZAL aircraft is clear as God’s day. According to him, Azerbaijan has not received a single clear answer from the Russian side for seven months. The Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan sends enquiries to the chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, but the response is only the wording ‘the investigation is ongoing’,” the publication writes.”
Aliyev said that Russia’s position is counterproductive. He recalled that the investigation into the 2014 crash of the Malaysian Boeing in Donbass lasted more than 10 years. Azerbaijan, he said, is also ready to wait as long as necessary.
The Embraer E190 plane of AZAL Airlines, which was travelling from Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to Russia’s Grozny, crashed on 25 December 2024 in Aktau in Kazakhstan. The aircraft crashed after being diverted across the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan during a Ukrainian drone attack on regions of the Caucasus. Thirty-eight people died in the crash and 29 survived.