Reports have been swirling in the days since saying it was shot down by a Russian anti-aircraft missile believed to have been fired from Grozny - the capital of Chechnya. This has led many to ...
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"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.
It was traveling from the Azeri capital Baku to Grozny, the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya. Several reports have suggested Russian air-defense systems operating around Grozny were ...