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This
photo taken on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015 shows the Tu-154 plane with registration
number RA-85572 at Chkalovsky military airport near Moscow, Russia. (AP
Photo/Dmitry Petrochenko)
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A Russian plane headed to
an air base in Syria with 92 people aboard, including members of a well-known
military choir, crashed into the Black Sea on Sunday minutes after taking off
from the resort city of Sochi, Russia's Defense Ministry said.
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| Russian rescue workers collect wreckage from the crashed plane at a pier just outside Sochi, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2016. Russian ships, helicopters and drones are searching for bodies after a plane carrying 93 people crashed into the Black Sea. The plane was taking the Alexandrov Ensemble, a military choir, to perform at Russia's air base in Syria when it went down shortly after takeoff. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin) |
