The Azerbaijan Airlines passenger aircraft crashed near Kazakhstan's Aktau Airport on Wednesday morning, killing 38 of the 67 people on board, Kazakh officials said.
Ukraine is now waging drone warfare across Russia, and there is growing speculation that Russian air defenses may have mistaken the jetliner as a drone and hit it.
The crew guided the crippled plane across the Caspian Sea in an attempt to make an emergency landing in Kazakhstan, saving half of the passengers onboard.