“Azebaijan Airlines (AZAL) has decided to cancel flights to seven Russian cities after its airliner failed to land in Grozny and crashed in Kazakhstan’s Aktau.”, — write: epravda.com.ua
Azebaijan Airlines (AZAL) has decided to cancel flights to seven Russian cities after its airliner failed to land in Grozny and crashed in Kazakhstan’s Aktau. This is written by The Moscow Times with reference to the APA agency. From December 28, 2024, the airline will not operate flights from Baku to Mineralnye Vody, Sochi, Volgograd, Ufa, Samara, Grozny and Makhachkala. Such a decision was made in connection with “the results of the preliminary investigation of the crash of the Embraer 190 plane and the possible risks to flight safety,” the carrier’s statement said. Advertisement: Flights will not be resumed until the final investigation into the causes of the plane crash. At the same time, the company will continue flights to Moscow, St. -Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Astrakhan, Kazan and Novosibirsk Ekaterinburg announced that flights will not be operated from December 28 to January 27, 2025. “The suspension of flights was carried out to ensure the safety of passengers and crew members,” the carrier said in a statement. At the same time, the company will continue to operate flights to Omsk and Novosibirsk. Advertisement: On the eve, 26 December, the national carrier of Israel El Al announced the suspension of flights to Moscow for a week “in connection with the events in the airspace of Russia”. Pilots don’t want to fly to Russia after the plane crash, AZAL sources said, “We can explain.” The Russians didn’t just shoot down our plane, but also didn’t let it land at the nearest airfields. At least this version is now mainstream in the pilot community. Where is the guarantee that this will not happen again? Nobody wants to take risks,” said one of the interlocutors of the publication. We will remind: on December 25, the Embraer 190 plane of the AZAL airline company, which was on its way from Baku to Grozny, crashed near Aktau. There were 62 passengers and five crew members on board: 42 citizens of Azerbaijan , 16 – from Russia, six – from Kyrgyzstan. 38 people died, 29 survived. Western sources Media in the Azerbaijan government, familiar with the investigation, said that the cause of the disaster was a Russian anti-aircraft missile launched from the Pantsir-S air defense complex.