An Azerbaijan Airlines plane flying from Baku to Grozny that crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan was shot down by a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system. Source: Reuters, citing its sources Quote: "One of the Azerbaijani sources familiar with Azerbaijan's investigation into the crash told Reuters that preliminary results showed the plane was struck by a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system.

Azerbaijan Airlines' Embraer 190 crashed near Aktau in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people. Experts suspect Russian air defense fire as the cause. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia are investigating, while theories suggest that the plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile,