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Overview
- The An-26 lost contact around 6 p.m. Moscow time Tuesday during a scheduled flight over Crimea.
- Search teams later found the wreckage with no survivors, confirming the deaths of six crew and 23 passengers.
- The Defense Ministry said investigators saw no sign of external impact on the wreckage.
- A preliminary finding points to a likely technical failure, with a ministry commission now investigating.
- Russian outlets have not released the exact crash site or the victims’ identities in Crimea, a region Russia annexed in 2014 that most countries still recognize as part of Ukraine.