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Russia admits introducing Carpet plan at Grozny Airport during plane crash in Kazakhstan

27 December, 2024 Friday
15:40

Russian Aviation head Dmitry Yadrov revealed that Grozny Airport activated the Carpet protocol on the day of the Kazakhstan plane crash, allegedly due to drone attacks on civilian infrastructure

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He said this in a statement about the plane crash, Russian state propaganda agency TASS reports.

"The situation on that day and at that time in the area of Grozny Airport was difficult. Ukrainian combat drones were carrying out terrorist attacks on civilian infrastructure in the cities of Grozny and Vladikavkaz. In connection with this, the Carpet protocol was introduced at Grozny Airport, which requires the immediate departure of all aircraft from the designated airspace," said Yadrov.

According to him, in Grozny, the plane descended to 500 meters and, allegedly under conditions of dense fog, made two attempts to land, both of which were unsuccessful.

Rosaviatsiya claims that it was allegedly the aircraft commander who decided to direct the plane to Aktau, although he was “offered other airports.”

  • On the morning of December 25, a passenger plane crashed in Aktau, Kazakhstan. It was en route from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to the city of Grozny in the Russian Federation. The plane crash killed 38 people. The Center for Countering Disinformation stated that it was hit by a Russian air defense system.
  • Later, sources in the Azerbaijani government said that preliminary investigations showed that the cause of the passenger plane crash was a Russian surface-to-air missile, and the pilots were not allowed to land in Russia.
  • At the same time, Kazakhstan's Transport Minister Marat Karabayev said that an oxygen cylinder exploded on board the Azerbaijan Airlines plane.
  • Azerbaijan Airlines suspended flights from Baku to 7 Russian cities after its plane crashed in Kazakhstan. Qazaq Air has also canceled flights on the Astana-Yekaterinburg route, and Israel's largest airline, El Al, has decided to cancel all flights to Russia.
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