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The agency, which cites the Russian Ministry of Defense and its own sources at the scene, assures that contact with the plane was lost, an An-26at 18:00 Moscow time on Tuesday (15:00 GMT) on a planned flight over Crimea. The first hypotheses suggest that it was a technical failure of the aircraft.
According to sources at the scene of the accident, all 29 soldiers who were aboard the transport plane lost their lives. The Ministry of Defense, according to the agency RIA Novostipointed out that “There is no evidence of external damage to the aircraft” just at the moment when contact was lost. Rescue teams were quickly mobilized to the site of impact.
The An-26, a Soviet-era twin-engine turboprop aircrafthas been widely used for short and medium range transportation, with the capacity to carry up to 40 soldiers or 5.5 tons of cargo.
The Crimean peninsula, a strategic region due to its access to the Black Sea, has been in the hands of Russia since 2014 after a controversial referendum not recognized by the international community and is a historical cause of dispute between Russia and Ukraine.
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