Russia is being accused of plotting to make the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in to the sea by refusing permission to let it land after a missile attack.
Russia is also accused of jamming navigation system of the plane.
It was learnt that a Russian surface-to-air missile struck the flight on Christmas Day, causing the airliner to crash in Kazakhstan, claiming the lives of 38 people.
Sources told Euronews that the missile was fired at Flight 8432 amid drone air activity above Grozny, the Chechen capital, citing a preliminary investigation.
They said the pilot was blocked from landing at any Russian airports despite making emergency pleas, and was instead ordered to carry on into Kazakhstan.
Taking to X, citing pro-government media, The Azeri Times confirmed that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane was denied emergency landings by Russia at three nearby conditions, despite its critical condition.
The news outlet also stated that the plane was subjected to ‘extreme GPS jamming’ which forced its hero pilot, Aleksandr Kalyaninov, to divert the flight over the Caspian Sea, where it eventually landed in Aktau, Kazakhstan.
Local media cited government sources in suggesting jammers ‘paralysed’ the plane’s communication systems’.
According to Flightradar24 data, the aircraft departed Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, at 03:55am and valid position data was received from the aircraft until 04:25am when the flight encountered ‘significant GPS interference’.
The airliner stopped pinging positional data altogether for the period between 04:25am and 04:37am, the data revealed.
And between 04:37am and 04:40am the aircraft sent likely erroneous position data, the flight tracker claims.
Flightradar24 receivers did not receive data from the aircraft between 04:40am and 05:03am and between a second gap from 05:04am to 05:13am.
From 05:13am until 06:07am all data received from the aircraft lacked positional information, it said, adding, from 06:07am through the end of the flight at 06:28am, position data was received from the aircraft.
Government sources said previously the plane was hit by a missile fired from a Pantsir-S air defence system from the Naursky district of Chechnya.
Thirty-eight passengers were killed in the crash as the plane attempted to make an emergency landing before erupting in a fireball.
Russia has tried to play down speculation the flight had been shot down by a Russian missile, urging patience while the investigation is carried out.
Kazakhstan has said it would be carrying out an investigation into the crash, suggesting it would cooperate with Azerbaijan but not Russia. Azerbaijan is understood to be conducting its own investigation.
