“A study of the black box showed that before the crash, he collided with a foreign body (presumably a bird or a flock of birds) in mid-air,” RIA Novosti quoted the agency as saying.
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said that after the emergency, the pilot tried to restore control of the aircraft.
The MiG-29 fighter crashed into the Caspian Sea during a training flight in late July.
On August 9, fragments of the crashed MiG-29 were found. On August 20, the body of the pilot Rashad Atakishiyev was discovered in the waters of the Caspian Sea.