On 25 December 2016 , a Russian military Tupolev Tu-154 with 92 people on board crashed in the Black Sea during a flight from Sochi International Airport , Russia to Khmeimim , Syria . There were no survivors . Among those killed were : 64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble choir , nine journalists , eight crew members , eight other passenger soldiers , two federal civil servants and a prominent Russian humanitarian worker
crashed in the Black Sea
2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash
Russian Armed Forces casualties in Syria