Recently, Russia has been losing its aircraft with increasing frequency The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that contact was lost with an An-26 aircraft during a routine flight over the ...

A Russian An-26 transport aircraft crashed in occupied Crimea late on March 31, killing 29 military personnel on board, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. The ministry claimed on April 1 that six ...

Details: The Russian Defence Ministry said it had lost contact with the An-26 at around 18:00 Moscow time on Tuesday 31 March while it had been conducting a "routine flight" over annexed Crimea.

MOSCOW, April 1. /TASS/. The An-26 military transport aircraft, with which contact had been lost, crashed into a cliff, a source from the crash site told TASS. There were no survivors. TASS has ...