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January 6, Fineko/abc.az. “The process of opening the black boxes has begun. At our insistence, this process is being carried out in Brazil,” President Ilham Aliyev said during a meeting with the family members of the crew who perished in the plane crash and the surviving flight attendants.

“I said in my television interview on 29 December that despite all the proposals and insistence, we categorically objected to the Interstate Aviation Committee opening the black boxes. Because objectivity could be in question there. Legally speaking, there could be a conflict of interest here. Therefore, an analysis of the black boxes has been started in Brazil with the participation of representatives of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia, and information about this will probably be disclosed in the near future. Of course, all the issues that remain outstanding to this day will also be revealed. The issues that are clear as day are that the plane was rendered uncontrollable by electronic warfare equipment. Another issue that is clear to us is that the plane was damaged by fire from the ground. But why was the plane sent to Aktau? We do not yet have information about this. Did this happen based on a decision made by local dispatchers or did the pilots themselves realize that electronic warfare equipment would no longer allow them to land in Russian airspace and made this choice themselves? We do not yet have information about this. Of course, all this information will be available after the black boxes have been opened. Considering the actions of the crew members, I would like to note again that the Azerbaijani state has awarded them high honors,” the head of state emphasized.