An-26 military transport plane crashed in Crimea on March 31, killing all 29 people on board.
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The An-26 military transport plane crashed on March 31 in Crimea, reportedly due to a technical malfunction. There were 29 people on board; all of them were killed.
The preliminary cause of the crash is a technical malfunction.
There was no evidence of external damage to the aircraft.
The An-26 crash killed all on board including the commander of the 6th Air Corps of the Northern Fleet, Lieutenant-General Alexander Otreshchenko
Contact had been lost with a military transport An-26 aircraft during a scheduled flight over temporarily occupied Crimea
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