The 53-page preliminary report published by Kazakhstan's transport ministry included photographs of the plane.

An Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed in December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan had suffered external damage and was riddled with holes in its fuselage, according to a report published on a Kazakh government website on Tuesday.

The crash of an Azerbaijani passenger plane in December was caused by a strike from a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system. Azerbaijan possesses a fragment of the missile as evidence. Source: Reuters,

An Azerbaijani passenger plane crashed in Kazakhstan, allegedly due to external damage. The Kazakh preliminary report attributes damage to potential external objects. Azerbaijan's leader implicated Russian actions,

An Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed in December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan was hit by a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system, an Azerbaijani government source told Reuters on Tuesday.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin meets Azerbaijan's Ambassador Rakhman Mustafayev in Moscow - Anadolu Ajansı

ASTANA - An Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed in December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan had suffered damage \"probably caused by external objects,\" according to a preliminary report published on a Kazakh government website on Tuesday.

An Azerbaijani passenger aircraft that crashed last December was hit by a Russian Pantsir-S air defense system, according to Tuesday report by Reuters. The plane had been diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan before the incident occurred.