Brazilian investigators have reportedly begun analyzing black boxes from the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer E190. The news comes almost two weeks after the regional aircraft operating flight J28243 from Baku to Grozny crash-landed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people.

Brazil’s air force says several of its investigators are working with colleagues from three other nations to analyze data from the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed in Kazakhstan on Dec. 25, killing 38 people.

A minister says all the survivors "heard blast sounds" over Grozny before the plane was diverted to Kazakhstan.

A passenger jet operated by Azerbaijan Airlines crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, after diverting from an area of southern Russia where Moscow has repeatedly used air defence systems against Ukrainian attack drones.

Multiple shrapnel holes in the plane’s fuselage and its altitude at the time of incident contradict the bird theory. Azerbaijan accused Russia of hitting the passenger jet with a missile. The pilot did not decide to fly to Aktau;