{"id":348660,"date":"2026-04-01T02:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/russian-military-plane-crashes-in-annexed-crimea-killing-29-people-on-board"},"modified":"2026-04-01T02:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:56:37","slug":"russian-military-plane-crashes-in-annexed-crimea-killing-29-people-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/russian-military-plane-crashes-in-annexed-crimea-killing-29-people-on-board","title":{"rendered":"Russian army airplane crashes in annexed Crimea, killing 29 individuals on board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-headline\">\n<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \"><span class=\"gtOSm FbbUW tUtYa vOCwz EQwFq yCufu eEak Qmvg nyTIa SRXVc vzLa jgBfc WXDas CiUCW kqbG zrdEG txGfn ygKVe BbezD UOtxr CVfpq xijV soGRS XgdC sEIlf daWqJ \">A Russian military plane has crashed in annexed Crimea, killing six crew and 23 passengers on board, Russian news agencies reported in the early hours of Wednesday, citing the country\u2019s Defense Ministry<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">MOSCOW &#8212; <\/span>A Russian military plane crashed in annexed Crimea, killing six crew and 23 passengers on board, Russian news agencies reported in the early hours of Wednesday, citing the country&#8217;s Defense Ministry. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The An-26 military transport plane was carrying out a scheduled flight over the Crimean peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014, the reports said. The military lost contact with the plane around 6 p.m. on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Russian news agency Interfax quoted the Defense Ministry as saying that they believe the crash was caused by a technical malfunction and that there was no \u201cdamaging interference\u201d with the plane. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The plane crashed into a cliff, sources at the site of the crash told state news agencies Tass and RIA Novosti. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The An-26 is a Soviet-designed military transport turboprop aircraft. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/International\/wireStory\/russian-military-plane-crashes-annexed-crimea-killing-29-131603717\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian military plane has crashed in annexed Crimea, killing six crew and 23 passengers on board, Russian news agencies reported in the early hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25741,25740,25739,4009,25742,25737,25736,25738,3575,11463,7092],"class_list":["post-348660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a-russian-army","tag-an-26","tag-an-26-army","tag-army","tag-consumer-publishing-nec","tag-interfax","tag-protection-ministry-moscow","tag-ria-novosti","tag-russia","tag-russian-army","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348662,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348660\/revisions\/348662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}