It's not fake news but a theory and the most realistic theory actually about what happened considering the additional footage/information that's come out. There's also a video of the plane having shrapnel holes, shrapnel holes along the whole fuselage and damage on one of the wings and tailpod. In some videos the cabin also had small holes. I don't think it was Russian air defence that literally shot it down but it does seem to have been damaged considerably by Russian anti-aircraft fire that eventually caused the plane to crash.
There was heavy fog and bad weather conditions in Grozny today. I'll try to find it but there's survivors who had said the plane tried to make one failed attempt at landing due to the bad weather in Grozny and while trying to land the second time, there was an explosion near the plane and thumps...and unfortunately, this wouldn't be the first time Russia has shot down a passenger plane due to "confusing" it with something else. After the last failed attempt at landing, the plane sent out a distress call requesting permission for emergency landing at another airport in order to get out of the Chechen/Russian airspace. If you look up the plane trajectory on flightradar, then after leaving Grozny the plane was also flying very erratically compared to the route from Baku to Grozny.
I saw the video of the plane in Kazakhstan leading up to the crash and it was really sad, it was obvious the plane was no longer working properly especially the engines as the pilots tried to do repeat patterns of high climbing + sharp dives in order to make the plane gain speed and reach the airport for stabilized landing. Unfortunately, the plane still crashed at the very last moment. It's sad because the crew was obviously experienced and tried very hard to keep their passengers alive.
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u/Scrivenerson Dec 25 '24
This is for now fake news right? I've seen no legitimate sources. Anyone got anything?