Azerbaijani president talks about downed AZAL plane in Fox News interview

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev gave an interview to the US television channel Fox News during his visit to the United States, Report informs via AZERTAC.

The channel’s website published an article based on some of the statements made by the head of state during the interview.

The head of state also spoke about relations with Russia and the incident involving the downing of Azerbaijan Airlines flight number 8243 in December 2024.

He noted that Azerbaijan does not believe this was a deliberate attack.

”The only thing that we demanded was to admit that, punish those who committed that crime, even if it was not intentional, and pay compensation to the victims and to the airline,” underlined President Ilham Aliyev.

AZAL passenger plane flying from Baku to Grozny crashed on December 25 near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan. Of the 67 people on board, 38 died and 29 survived.

According to preliminary data, the plane crashed as a result of physical and technical external interference that occurred in Russian airspace over Grozny.