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Azerbaijan Airlines Jet Crashes In Kazakhstan, Downed By Russia

One Mile at a Time

J28243 took off from Baku at 03:55 UTC time and was flying to Grozny. In video footage, the plane can be seen entering a steep descent toward Aktau and even banking to the right. That's a lot of damage to the tail and the E190 was Embraer's first with a FBW elevator. That crew did an amazing job under the circumstances.

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