INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Azerbaijan stated on Monday that Moscow had assured to penalize those responsible for the downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that Baku
says was contended by Russian air defenses.The AZAL Embraer 190 jet crash-landed in Kazakhstan on Dec
25, eliminating 38 of the 67 individuals on board.The occurrence prompted numerous airline companies to cancel flights to Russia, including
Israels El Al, which announced Monday it was suspending flights to Moscow till the end of March.Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has
required that Moscow accept obligation for wrongly shooting on the aircraft as it attempted to make a set up landing at Grozny airport in
southern Russia.Russia has not confirmed that one of its air defense missiles hit the airplane
President Vladimir Putin told Aliyev in a phone call over the weekend that the systems were active at the time and that he was sorry the
event took place in Russian airspace.Azerbaijans prosecutor general reported on Monday that the head of Russias Investigative Committee had
informed Baku: Intensive procedures are being carried out to determine the guilty people and bring them to criminal obligation
Russia has opened a criminal inquiry into the incident.But it has not stated whether it agrees that the aircraft was struck by among its air
defense missiles and has not itself said anything about finding or bringing any wrongdoers to justice.Aliyev had actually released an
uncommon forthright condemnation of Moscow a close partner of Baku on Sunday.He stated the aircraft was struck by accident but was upset
that Russia had actually apparently attempted to hide the reason for the crash.Demanding that Putin admit responsibility, Aliyev also
implicated Russia of putting forward alternative theories that plainly revealed the Russian side wished to cover up the problem
Russia stated Grozny, in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya, was being assaulted by Ukrainian drones when the AZAL airliner
approached to make its landing through thick fog.Survivors have explained hearing explosions outside the aircraft, which then diverted more
than 400 kilometers (250 miles) across the Caspian Sea towards the Kazakh city of Aktau, where it crash-landed
Kazakhstan said on Monday it had actually sent out the aircrafts black boxes to Brazil, where Embraer is based, to be evaluated by the
Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center, an unit of the Brazilian air force.
