Preliminary report on Azerbaijan Airlines crash flight J2 8243 published
At February 2, 2025 the AVIATION ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION COMMISSION of the Ministry of Transport of Kazakhstan published the preliminary report on the crash of flight J2 8243. The Embraer 195 crashed at December 25, 2024 at runway 11 of the Aktau airport in Kazahhstan.
The translated report (in english language) can be downloaded here.
The investigation revealed multiple damages to the aircraft’s structure, including the tail section of the fuselage, vertical stabilizer, elevator, rudder, left engine, left wing, and other components. Some damages exhibited regular rectangular shapes, suggesting penetration by external objects. The report emphasized that these damages occurred before impact and likely caused the loss of hydraulic fluid and pressure, leading to the failure of control systems.
“Most of the penetration damage is in the vertical stabilizer and stabilizer. Visual inspection of the through damages shows that some of them are through, while others are blind/non-through damages. The Investigation Commission, in the presence of Authorized Representatives of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Azerbaijan and law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan, carried out actions to extract foreign objects that could have been preserved in the blind damages, in order to send them for additional forensic examination. As a result, a large number of foreign objects were extracted from the blind damages,” the report states.
