Russia Mourns Victims of Military Plane Crash

Dec 25, 2016 - 01:00 pm

Pictured in this file image dated January 15, 2015, is a Tupolev Tu-154 plane of Russia's Defense Ministry at Chkalovsky Military Airport. Dmitry Petrochenko / TASS

People pay tribute to passengers and crew members of Russian military Tu-154 plane crashed into the Black Sea, near a makeshift memorial outside the headquarters of the Alexandrov Ensemble. Mikhail Dzhaparidze / TASS

Flowers in memory of the victims of a Russian Defense Ministry plane crash outside the offices of Spravedlivaya Pomoshch Fund [Just Aid Foundation] headed by Elizaveta Glinka. Dmitry Serebryakov / TASS

Flowers in memory of the victims of a Russian Defense Ministry plane crash outside the headquarters of the Alexandrov Ensemble. Sergei Savostyanov / TASS

A cameraman from Russian Zvezda channel, whose colleagues were on board of Russian military Tu-154 plane crashed into the Black Sea, is comforted by a man outside the headquarters of the Alexandrov Ensemble. Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters

Russian rescue workers carry a body from the wreckage of the crashed plane, at a pier just outside Sochi, Russia. Artur Lebedev / TASS

A Tu-154 passenger aircraft belonging to the Russian Defense Ministry has crashed in the Black Sea near Sochi, a source in the ministry confirmed to the Interfax news agency. All 92 people on board are presumed dead.

Among the passengers confirmed to be on the plane was the prominent philanthropist and charity worker Elizaveta Glinka, also known as Doctor Liza. 64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble, also known as the Red Army Choir, were on board.

More image galleries

In Photos: Russia Hosts BRICS Summit in Kazan

In Russia's Tver Region, a Mailwoman Is Villagers' Connection to the World

In Photos: Moscow Bakes as City Sets New Daily Heat Record

In Photos: Northern Lights Illuminate Skys Across Russia