Kazakhstan's Ministry of Transport released a report with preliminary findings regarding the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane near the city of Aktau on 25 December. Source: Tengri News, a Kazakh media outlet,

The 53-page preliminary report published by Kazakhstan's transport ministry included photographs of the plane.

An Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed in December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan had suffered damage "probably caused by external objects", according to a preliminary report published on a Kazakh government website on Tuesday.

An Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed in December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan was hit by a Russian Pantsir-S air defense system, an Azerbaijani government source told Reuters on Tuesday.

A drone view shows emergency specialists working at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan December 25, 2024. REUTERS/Azamat Sarsenbayev ASTANA ( Kazakhstan),

On February 7, 2025, a memorial service was held in honor of those who tragically lost their lives in the plane crash involving an Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft in Aktau on December 25, 2024. The event was organized by the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Azerbaijan and the Mangistau Regional Akimat,

Kazakh officials released the report February 4, stating the 53-parge document “does not purport to assign blame or responsibility to anyone” for the incident, in which an Azerbaijani flight bound for Grozny in Chechnya is widely believed to have been hit by anti-aircraft fire before making a crash landing near the Kazakh city of Aktau,