r/worldnews • u/DomesticErrorist22 • 1d ago

Preliminary investigation confirms Russian missile caused Azerbaijan Airlines crash Russia/Ukraine

https://www.euronews.com/2024/12/26/exclusive-preliminary-investigation-confirms-russian-missile-over-grozny-caused-aktau-cras
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u/PositiveUse 1d ago

Inexcusable mistake. What is worse: they rejected helping the airplane by providing the emergency land clearance.

This makes the mistake active murder.

It’s time for international airlines to ban any flights into and out of Russia. Our politicians are spineless…

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u/lapayne82 1d ago

I’m honestly surprised anybody is still flying over Russian airspace right now, given their stocks for repairs and maintenance must be getting low, imagine Turkish airlines landing in Russia and needing a part to fly again that’s no longer available, they’d lose the aircraft, not to mention the number of “accidents” they’ve had so far, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near Russian airspace

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u/mm0t 1d ago

The Chinese have a massive advantage when flying to Europe through Russia, European companies have cut routes to China due to losing money on the routes around Russia. They will keep flying even if something happens as they want it to stay that way, and they want their piece of routes to China.

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u/Wassertopf 1d ago

Yeah, I was flying with Air China from Munich to Vietnam via Peking. When we flew over Russia I had a bit of a bad feeling.

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u/mm0t 1d ago

Would advise against that every day of the week.

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u/nicuramar 1d ago

This plane was going to Russia, actually.