Footage of an Azerbajian Airlines plane that crashed and killed 38 people shows suspicious holes in the fuselage, leading to rumours that the aircraft was shot down by Russians. The flight from Azerbajian's capital Baku to the Russian city of Grozny crashed with 67 passengers and five crew members on board near Aktau, western Kazakhstan , this morning. According to the plane's course on Flight Radar 24, it was flying over the republic of Dagestan along the Caspian Sea coast, after which it disappeared from tracking, suggesting it was exposed to air defense systems in Russia. It then showed up around an hour later off course and flying low above the water near western Kazakhstan before crashing. Ahead of the crash, the crew had reported a strong impact on the hull . They assumed the aircraft hit a flock of birds but later it was reported that it was the explosion of an oxygen tank to supply the cockpit in the event of depressurisation.
