Six crew members and 23 passengers were killed when a Russian An‑26 military transport plane crashed in Crimea, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed early Wednesday. The aircraft collided with a cliff, a source at the scene told TASS news agency. The Russian defense ministry said late Tuesday that the An-26 had lost contact during a scheduled flight over the Crimean Peninsula. According to preliminary information, the crash was caused by a technical malfunction, and no hostile fire targeted the aircraft.
Contact with the An-26 military transport aircraft was lost during a routine flight over Crimea at about 6:00 p.m. Moscow time (3:00 p.m. GMT) on March 31. The Russian Defense Ministry has said that a search and rescue team located the crash site later.
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