Russian troops craft crashes en track to Syria with 92 on board

Russian troops craft crashes en track to Syria with 92 on board
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A Russian troops craft with 92 people on house has crashed into a Black Sea on a approach to Syria, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday, and it was doubtful there would be any survivors.

Russian agencies, citing unnamed confidence sources, pronounced a TU-154 aircraft had crashed in a sea nearby a southern Russian city of Sochi after disintegrating from radar screens.

The craft was carrying Russian servicemen and members of a eminent troops choir and dance ensemble, a Alexandrov Ensemble, who were being flown into Russia’s Hmeymim atmosphere bottom in Syria to perform troops organisation in a run-up to a new year, a RIA news group quoted a Defence Ministry as saying.

The craft was carrying 84 passengers and 8 organisation members, agencies quoted a method as saying. Nine Russian reporters were among a passengers, agencies said.

Fragments of a craft have already been found during a abyss of 50-70 metres during a stretch of around 1.5 kilometres (0.93 miles)from a Russian coast, agencies reported Russia’s RIA news agency, citing an unclear confidence source, pronounced rough information indicated that a craft had crashed since of a technical malfunction or a commander error.

The Interfax news group cited an unnamed source as observant a craft had not sent an SOS signal. Kremlin orator Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Sunday it was too early to contend what had caused a crash. President Vladimir Putin was being kept sensitive of latest developments, Peskov added.

Russia’s Defence Ministry frequently flies musicians into Syria to put on concerts for troops personnel. The bottom they were streamer for, Hmeymim, is in Latakia province. It is from there that Russia flies atmosphere strikes opposite Syrian rebels.

Earlier in December, another Russian Defence Ministry crashed in Siberia with 39 people on house as it attempted to make an puncture alighting nearby a Soviet-era troops base. Nobody was been killed in that incident, yet 32 people were airlifted to hospital.

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