Divers find Tu-154 fuselage in Black Sea

  26 December 2016    Read: 2126
Divers find Tu-154 fuselage in Black Sea
Divers have found the fuselage of the crashed Tu-154 aircraft in the Black Sea, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said in a statement on Monday, AzVision.az reports citing Sputnik.
Preliminary data shows that the aircraft`s debris is thought to be 88.5 feet deep, just one mile offshore.

"On December 26, at 1:20 pm, divers of the Russian Emergencies Ministry found the fuselage of the crashed aircraft in the Black sea. Preliminary data indicates that the wreckage is at a depth of 27 meters [88.5 feet] at a distance of 1 mile from the shore in the direction of the runway," the ministry official said.



On Sunday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry`s Tu-154 aircraft en route to Syria with 92 people on board crashed into the Black Sea shortly after refueling at an airport in the Russian resort city of Adler. Fragments of the plane were discovered 1 mile from the sea shore of Sochi.

All the passengers and crew members are feared dead.

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