What the records say
- When
- 25 Dec 2016
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 43.42° N, 39.84° E
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 92
- Injured
- 0
2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash
2016 aircraft accident in the Black Sea
On 25 December 2016, a Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner of the Russian Defence Ministry crashed into the Black Sea shortly after taking off from Sochi International Airport, Russia, while en route to Khmeimim Air Base, Syria, during the Russian military intervention in the war in Syria. All 92 passengers and crew on board, including 64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble choir of the Russian Armed Forces, were killed.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash: A Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner of the Russian Defence Ministry crashes into the Black Sea shortly after taking…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2016 Rusya Savunma Bakanlığı Tu-154 kazası: Rusya Federasyonu Savunma Bakanlığı'na ait bir Tupolev Tu-154 jet uçağı”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Absturz eines Flugzeugs des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums in Südrussland sterben alle 92 Menschen an Bord”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un Tupolev Tu-154 s'écrase près de Sotchi, en Russie, tuant les 92 personnes à bord, dont 64 membres du coeur Alexandrov”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “после взлёта из аэропорта Сочи (Россия) потерпел катастрофу самолёт ТУ-154”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “تحطم طائرة عسكرية روسية من طراز توبوليف تو 154 كانت تحمل 92 شخصا متوجهة إلى سوريا ومصرع جميع من كان على متنها”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “一架由莫斯科飛往敘利亞西北部拉塔基亞的俄羅斯國防部圖-154客機,在南部索契加油後於黑海墜毀 ,機上92人全部罹難。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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