There is US intelligence that Russia may have mistakenly shot down an Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday (Dec 25) after misidentifying it as an incoming drone, MSNBC reported on Friday, citing two unidentified US military sources.

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Emergency specialists work at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines' Embraer passenger plane near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan, in this picture released Dec 26, 2024.

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There is US intelligence that Russia may have mistakenly shot down an Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday (Dec 25) after misidentifying it as an incoming drone, MSNBC reported on Friday, citing two unidentified US military sources. ALSO READ: Survivors on Azerbaijani plane say they heard bangs before it went down


US intelligence points to possible misidentification of Azerbaijani plane by Russia, MSNBC reports