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Source: The Washington Post
By David Filipov December 25 at 9:56 AM
MOSCOW A Russian military passenger plane carrying dozens of Red Army Choir singers, dancers and orchestra members plunged into the Black Sea minutes after it took off en route Sunday to a military base in Syria, killing all 92 people on board, Russias Defense Ministry said.
The cause of the crash had yet to be determined Sunday afternoon. Officials were ruling out terrorism, though Russias Federal Security Service was looking into everyone who could have come in contact with the jet on the ground.
Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, a military spokesman, told reporters that no one survived after the aging Soviet-era jet, which had set out from Moscow, crashed shortly a refueling stop at the airport in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi.
The area of the crash site has been established, Konashenkov said. No survivors have been spotted.
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