"I heard a loud explosion, the oxygen masks fell down and the plane shook," Rinat Assanov told AFP, recalling the moment the Azerbaijan Airlines plane he was on ran into trouble over southern Russia.

New details have emerged about the last words of a flight attendant on board the ill-fated Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day. The plane was en route to Grozny ...

Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Russia all opened investigations into the cause of the crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243.

The Azerbaijan Airlines passenger aircraft crashed near Kazakhstan's Aktau Airport on Wednesday morning, killing 38 of the 67 people on board, Kazakh officials said.

Rescuers work at the wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8243 as it lays on the ground near the ... [+] airport in Aktau, Kazakhstan on Dec. 25. Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 was scheduled to ...

Azerbaijan Airlines said that the crash of its plane in Kazakhstan on 25 December was caused by physical and technical external influence. Source: European Pravda with reference to the airline's ...

Azerbaijan Airlines has suspended flights to eight additional Russian airports after a flight meant to carry passengers from Azerbaijan's capital of Baku to Grozny, Russia crashed "due to physical ...

Russian air defenses potentially misidentified the Azerbaijan Airlines jet as a long-range Ukrainian attack drone, a US official told CNN Friday, adding that the holes on the side of the aircraft ...

after an Azerbaijan Airlines plane destined for Russia crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day. In his first comments since the crash that killed 38 out of the 67 people on board, the Putin ...