Viktor Ozerov, head of Russia’s defence affairs committee at the upper house of Russian parliament, said in remarks carried by the state news agency RIA Novosti that he “totally excludes terrorism” as a possible cause of the crash.īut Russia’s transport minister Maxim Sokolov said an “entire spectrum” of possible reasons is being considered. In a condolence message sent to President Putin, Assad said the two countries were partners in the “fight to lay the foundations of stability, security and peace” in Syria.
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday he was “saddened” by the crash. Russia has been supporting its longtime ally, Syria, with a bombing campaign against rebel groups for more than a year. The Alexandrov Ensemble was due to perform at the Khmeimim airbase, Russia’s main base of operations for its military campaign in support of the Syrian government. “The site of the Tu-154 plane crash has been identified,” news agencies quoted the ministry as saying. The defence ministry said a widely revered Russian charity doctor was also on board the plane, in addition to nine journalists, a Russian army general and five colonels. Members of the choir were travelling to Syria to celebrate the New Year with Russian troops. “The plane gets instantly blown into pieces.”īy Sunday afternoon, rescue teams had already recovered 10 bodies.Ī list of passengers and crew published by the ministry showed that 64 members of the renowned Alexandrov Ensemble, the army’s official choir, and its conductor Valery Khalilov were on board the plane. “There is no chance to survive in such a situation,” he said, according to the Interfax news agency. Magomed Tolboyev, a decorated Russian test pilot, said the circumstances of the crash indicated that all on board had died. The Tu-154 plane had departed from the southern Russian city of Adler on Sunday morning and was heading towards Latakia in Syria. There was no sign of survivors, the defence ministry said on Sunday, as President Vladimir Putin announced a national day of mourning. However, based on black box data that caught the sound of oxygen hissing, BEA produced a fresh report in March 2022, alleging that oxygen had spilled from a pilot's oxygen mask in the cockpit soon before the crash.A Russian military plane with 92 people on board, including members of a famed army choir, has crashed into the Black Sea shortly after taking off, the Russian defence ministry has said.
There were 56 passengers and 10 crew members killed in the plane crash, including 12 French nationals, 30 Egyptians, two Iraqis, one Canadian, and one British person.Įgyptian authorities initially claimed that the jet crash was the result of a terrorist strike, saying that traces of explosives were discovered on the victims' bodies, but those claims were widely debunked.īased on data from the aircraft's black box recorder, which was recovered from the deep ocean in Greece by the US Navy in 2018, France's BEA confirmed that the flight went down due to an onboard fire in 2018-however investigators did not say what caused the onboard blaze at the time. The BEA, France's Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety, has since concluded that pilot Mohamed Said Shoukair's mid-flight smoke break ignited oxygen seeping from an oxygen mask in the cockpit, resulting in a fire onboard the Airbus A320 jet. According to a new report, an EgyptAir flight that crashed en route to Cairo, killing all 66 passengers and crew members, was brought down by a pilot who lit a cigarette in the cockpit and ignited a fire.ĮgyptAir flight MS804 was flying from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Cairo International Airport on May 19, 2016, when it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea between the Greek island of Crete and northern Egypt.
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