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

An Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed in December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan had suffered external damage and was riddled with holes in its fuselage, according to a report published on a Kazakh government website on Tuesday.

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,

Azerbaijan plans to sue Russia for the downing of its Embraer E190 plane over Grozny if Moscow does not acknowledge fault, according to a report by "Azeri-Press" (APA). The agency states that evidence,

Transport Ministry report contains no final conclusions about causes of Azerbaijan Airlines crash near Aktau Airport in December of last year - Anadolu Ajansı

An Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed in December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan was hit by a Russian Pantsir-S air defense system, an Azerbaijani government source told Reuters on Tuesday.

Russian civil aviation authorities said Wednesday that they have not been granted access to the “foreign objects” that damaged an Azerbaijani jet before it crashed in Kazakhstan last month. Kazakhstan’s Transportation Ministry on Tuesday published preliminary findings of its investigation into the crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243.