Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 Crash

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What caused the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Kazakhstan? Here's what we know so far.

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Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 crashed while trying to reach another airport in Aktau , Kazakhstan , on Christmas Day .

The plane was flying from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to the city of Grozny in Russia 's North Caucasus region.

There were conflicting accounts of why the plane's pilots diverted the aircraft.

Investigators have recovered both of the so-called black boxes, the flight data and cockpit voice recorders.

Zulfugar Asadov said the noises sounded like something hitting the plane from outside.

He said he sustained a sudden injury, like a "deep wound, the arm was lacerated as if someone hit me in the arm with an ax" Jerova Salihat told Azerbaijani television in an interview in the hospital that "something exploded" near her leg.

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