The Azerbaijani airliner crash that killed at least 38 people Wednesday may have been the result of a “mistake” from Russian anti-aircraft defenses, retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier Gen. Blaine Holt tells Newsmax.
“It does look like there was anti-aircraft machine gun fire that went through the cabin,” Holt said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” Thursday. “You can see it across the fuselage, but the other part is the tack of the airplane itself. It went over Grozny. I think what we have here is, is a mistake in Chechnya by an anti-aircraft artillery battery, but that’s only with 5% of the details.”
The passenger jet crashed on Christmas Day near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau with 67 people aboard. It had diverted its course over an area where Moscow air defenses have been battling Ukrainian drones.
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