{"id":697106,"date":"2026-04-01T11:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/697106\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:13:13","slug":"russian-military-plane-crash-in-crimea-kills-29-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/697106\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian military plane crash in Crimea kills 29 people"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 A Russian military plane crash in annexed Crimea<\/a> has killed six crew and 23 passengers, Russian news agencies reported in the early hours of Wednesday, citing the Defense Ministry. <\/p>\n

The An-26 military transport plane was carrying out a scheduled flight over the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine<\/a> in 2014, the reports said. The military lost contact with the plane around 6 p.m. on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The Soviet-designed military transport turboprop aircraft crashed into a cliff, sources at the scene told state news agencies Tass and RIA Novosti. <\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee said a total of seven crew members and 23 passengers were on board. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear from official statements if one crew member has survived. <\/p>\n

The Investigative Committee said it has launched a criminal probe in connection with flight regulations and a search is underway in a mountainous forested area in the Bakhchisarai district.<\/p>\n

The Interfax news agency cited the Defense Ministry as saying a suspected technical malfunction may have caused the crash and that there was no \u201cdamaging interference\u201d with the aircraft. <\/p>\n

Accidents involving Russian military planes have been frequent since the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine. <\/p>\n

In December, an An-22 military transport plane crashed in Russia\u2019s Ivanovo region, killing seven crew. In October, a MiG-31 fighter jet crashed in the Lipetsk region, while a Tu-22M3 bomber crashed in the Siberian region of Irkutsk in April 2025. <\/p>\n

In October 2022, a Su-34 bomber crashed into a residential area<\/a> of Yeysk, a Russian city on the Azov sea, sparking a massive fire and killing 15 people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 A Russian military plane crash in annexed Crimea has killed six crew and 23 passengers,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":697107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[121784,57,8132,50,518,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-697106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-crimea","9":"tag-general-news","10":"tag-military-and-defense","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-plane-crashes","13":"tag-world","14":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}