Brazil extracts black box data from Azerbaijan Airlines crash in Kazakhstan
Brazil’s Aviation Accident Investigation and Prevention Center (CENIPA) has extracted data from the two black boxes found at the crash site of the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer E-190 shot down in western Kazakhstan on December 25, 2024.
On December 30, 2024, the Ministry of Transport of Kazakhstan announced that the black boxes had been sent to Brazil’s Aviation Accident Investigation and Prevention Center (CENIPA) for investigation.
According to The Guardian, on January 6, 2025, the CENIPA laboratory, operated by Brazil’s Air Force, extracted data from the flight recorders, which capture cockpit conversations and flight data. The authorities in Kazakhstan are responsible for sharing this information. However, as of January 7, 2025, the results have not been made public.
On the same day, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev met with the families of the crew members who were killed in the crash. During the meeting, he mentioned that sending the black boxes to Brazil underscores the “demand for objectivity”.
“Had we seen attempts by the official circles of the Russian Federation to objectively investigate this tragedy from the very beginning, we would likely have agreed to the decoding of the black boxes by the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC),” Aliyev said.
Aliyev added that all the information obtained in Brazil was forwarded to the Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan, which is responsible for analyzing and investigating the accident.
What happened to Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243?
On December 25, 2024, an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer E-190 registered 4K-AZ65 carried 62 passengers and five crew members and was conducting flight J28243 from Baku-Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD) to Grozny Airport (GRV), Russia, when it crashed in western Kazakhstan. Of the 67 people on board the flight, 38 were killed.
Azerbaijan authorities believes that the aircraft was unintentionally shot down by Russian air defenses, which the Kremlin has confirmed were in action that day over Grozny. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin did not admit that Russia was to blame for the crash, only apologizing “for the fact that the tragic incident occurred in Russian airspace”.
The Azerbaijan President added that when there is any threat to a country’s airspace, it is immediately closed to commercial flights for safety reasons.
“If Russian airspace was under threat, the captain of the aircraft should have been promptly informed,” Aliyev said. “The airspace should have been closed immediately, and the plane should have been instructed to turn back.”
Therefore, Aliyev believes that Russia is attempting to cover up this accident as Russian state agencies focus on “absurd theories” that “evoke surprise, regret, and rightful indignation.”
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