Azerbaijan Airlines pilot's chilling last words before Christmas Day plane crash
dailyrecord.co.ukThe chilling last words of the pilot of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that went down on Christmas Day have been made public.Evidence is piling up that Russian air defences hit the aircraft on Wednesday December 25, killing 38 people.
The Embraer jet was likely wrongly targeted as a suspected Ukrainian drone.It was reportedly hit by a Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile from the Naursky district of Chechnya.
The apparent damage to the aircraft - seen on the intact rear section of the doomed aircraft at Aktau in Kazakhstan - is consistent with such a strike.The accounts of surviving passengers, who spoke of an explosion outside the plane, have been shared.
The plane was hoping to land as scheduled in Grozny, Chechnya.The area has been under regular attack from Ukraine in recent weeks.
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