#SouthCaucasus M.N.: Damage to the tail may explain the loss of the maneuverability on landing evident on the video, which might have led to a crash. The plane made three attempts at landing in Grozny, and it flew away after it was fired upon. It was chased away! Why? – Aviation experts say Russia’s air defense fire likely caused Azerbaijan plane crash as nation mourns – https://t.co/Imoxi0kJIA https://t.co/5Cwuyjuopp…Yan Matveyev, an independent Russian military expert, noted that images of the crashed plane’s tail reveal the damage compatible with shrapnel from a small surface-to-air missiles, such as the Pantsyr-S1 air defense system. “It looks like the tail section of the plane was damag