The Smolensk air disaster left two countries in a bitter war of words over who was to blame after 96 people died on the doomed flight

Russian President Vladimir Putin has admitted that his country’s air defences were responsible for shooting down an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day, killing 38.

President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia’s air defense were to blame for downing an Azerbaijani jetliner in December that killed 38 people, his first admission of responsibility for the crash in an effort to ease tensions between the neighbors. Putin said the missiles fired by Russian air defenses to target a Ukrainian drone exploded near the Azerbaijan Airlines plane flying from ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Failure to de-ice a Russian passenger plane before takeoff was the most likely cause of a crash in Siberia that killed 31 people, federal investigators said on Wednesday. The UTair ATR 72-200 craft, carrying 43 people, tilted to its ...

The Russian leader said there were "several causes" of the "tragedy," and the first was a Ukrainian drone in the sky.

An aviation expert claims to have 'solved' the mystery of how a Russian passenger jet crashed while flying over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, a decade on from the tragedy. On 31 October 2015, Metrojet Flight 9268 departed from Egypt's Sharm El Sheikh International Airport on a commercial flight to the Russian city of St Petersburg.

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia’s air defense were to blame for downing an Azerbaijani jetliner in December that killed 38 people, his first admission of responsibility for the crash in an effort to ease tensions between the ...