Russian military plane crashed Sunday in the Black Sea as it made its
way to Syria with 92 people onboard, including more than 60 Red Army
Choir members heading to celebrate the New Year with troops.Local news
agencies, citing the defence ministry, said the Tu-154 plane had crashed
shortly after take-off at 5:40 am local time (0240 GMT) from the
southern city of Adler where it had been refuelling.Defence ministry
spokesman Igor Konashenkov told Russian news agencies that one body had
been recovered six kilometres off the coast of the resort city of Sochi,
as a frantic search operation continued to hunt for the
missing.”Fragments of the Tu-154 plane of the Russian defence ministry
were found 1.5 kilometres from the Black Sea coast of the city of Sochi
at a depth of 50 to 70 metres,” the ministry said.The plane had been on a
routine flight to Russia’s Hmeimim airbase in western Syria, which has
been used to launch air strikes in Moscow’s military campaign supporting
its ally President Bashar al-Assad in the country’s devastating civil
war.
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