Azerbaijan Plane Crash | 'It was as if I was drunk': Survivors recount moments of chaos before crash
A passenger on the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan told Reuters on Friday (December 27) that there was at least one loud bang as it approached Grozny in southern Russia. Flight J2-8243 crashed on Wednesday (December 25) in a ball of fire near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from an area of southern Russia where Moscow has repeatedly used air defense systems against Ukrainian attack drones.