Authorities in Kazakhstan are investigating the cause of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in the country, which killed 38 people and injured 29 others on Christmas Day. The big picture: Flight J2-8243 was diverted while en route from Baku, Azerbaijan's capital, to Grozny in southern Russia.

Azerbaijan Airlines' Embraer 190 crashed near Aktau in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people. Experts suspect Russian air defense fire as the cause. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia are investigating, while theories suggest that the plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile,

Subkhon Rakhimov miraculously survived the plane crash and shared videos with his wife documenting the damage to the craft.