“surviving passengers heard an explosion followed by what looked like shrapnel hitting the plane and damaging the fuselage.”
Flight 8432 left Baku for Grozny and crashed near Aktau with 38 of 67 people dead. The airline blamed a flock of birds. President Aliyev blamed the weather. FlightRadar24 logged strong GPS jamming and a figure-eight track, and survivors describe shrapnel. Birds do not leave holes in a fuselage.