#SouthCaucasus What we know about the Azerbaijan Airlines crash in Kazakhstan – The Washington Post https://t.co/sabYIOoZw5 Officials did not explain why the plane could not land on Russian territory. “Everything I have seen points to a relatively small surface-to-air missile detonating on the port side of the tail, damaging the rudder and elevators,” open-source intelligence analyst Oliver Alexander told The Washington Post on Thursday. Based on the videos and flight path, a Russia-based aviation expert, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to fear of repercussions from authorities, said images circulating of the plane showed “high-explosive fragmentation damage to the tail section,”