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Investigators are learning more about the crash of an Azerbaijan passenger jet that left 38 people dead.

NPR's Brian Mann reports the plane went down on Wednesday in Kazakhstan.

There were 67 people on board when the plane went down while en route from Azerbaijan's capital,

Baku, to the Russian city of Grosny.

There were 29 survivors.

Video shows the plane flying erratically before the fiery crash.

There is widespread speculation in Ukraine. The airliner may have been hit mistakenly by Russian anti-aircraft weapons.

In a statement on social media, Andri Kovolenko, head of a think tank linked to Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, said a Russian anti-aircraft system, quote,

damaged the plane and disabled its systems. His analysis is based on photographs and video of the

crash and couldn't be independently confirmed by NPR. Brian Mann, NPR News, Keev.

Today marks 20 years since a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia.

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