Kazakhstan hands over flight recorders of crashed plane to Brazil for decoding

The flight recorders of the Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft that crashed at the airport in Aktau, Kazakhstan, will be sent to Brazil for decoding.

Source: Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Telegram

Quote: "According to the standards of Annex 13 of the Chicago Convention, the state conducting the investigation ensures the retrieval of flight recorder data and decides on the country for reading and decoding the black boxes."

Details: The ministry noted that Kazakhstan ratified the convention [Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation – ed.] in 1992 and is a member of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).

The decision was made based on the Convention on International Civil Aviation and following consultations with aviation authorities in Azerbaijan and Russia.

Kazakhstan's Ministry of Transport added that Brazil is the country where the Embraer aircraft involved in the crash was manufactured.

Background:

• On 25 December, an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer aircraft en route from Baku to Grozny crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau on the Caspian Sea. According to Azerbaijan Airlines, 67 people were on board, including five crew members. Of these, 42 were citizens of Azerbaijan, 16 were Russians, 6 were Kazakhs, and 3 were Kyrgyz nationals.
• KazAeroNavigation believes that the crash was caused by a bird strike and a steering failure. Russian media outlets have not ruled out the possibility that the plane may have changed course due to the threat of a drone attack on Chechnya. Early reports indicate that Grozny was being attacked by several UAVs at the time, which led to the announcement of a Kovyor (Carpet) plan at the city's airport [a Kovyor plan is an operational safety procedure for airport services and personnel when an unidentified object appears in the sky – ed.].
• The crash killed 38 people, said Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbayev, chair of the state commission leading the investigation into the causes of the crash.
• Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation said the plane had been shot down by a Russian anti-aircraft missile system.
• According to Euronews sources, the crash was caused by a Russian surface-to-air missile that exploded nearby.

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