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

On December 25, an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane crashed in Kazakhstan, killing more than half of the 67 people on board. The flight had been diverted to Aktau in the country’s west for an emergency landing after a failed attempt to land in Grozny,

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.