{"id":5217,"date":"2026-03-31T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:25:15","slug":"russian-military-transport-plane-crashes-in-crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/russian-military-transport-plane-crashes-in-crimea\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian military transport plane crashes in Crimea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Six crew members and 23 passengers were killed, the Defense Ministry has said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"98\" data-end=\"152\">A Russian An-26 military transport plane crashed in Crimea on Tuesday evening, killing all 29 people on board, the Defense Ministry has said.<strong data-start=\"98\" data-end=\"152\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"98\" data-end=\"152\">According to the MOD, communication with the aircraft was lost at around 6 PM local time during a <em>\u201croutine flight\u201d<\/em> over the strategic Black Sea peninsula.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"98\" data-end=\"152\">The Russian Defense Ministry said there were <em>\u201cno signs of external impact on the aircraft,\u201d<\/em> implying that the plane had not been shot down by Ukraine. TASS cited a source as saying that the plane crashed into a mountain.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"98\" data-end=\"152\">RIA Novosti reported that preliminary data suggests the aircraft may have suffered a technical issue.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/635999-colombia-military-plane-crash\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            <span>READ MORE: <\/span>At least 66 killed in military plane crash (VIDEOS)<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"98\" data-end=\"152\">The An-26 is a twin-engine turboprop aircraft capable of transporting up to 40 soldiers and designed for deploying paratroopers and evacuating the wounded.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six crew members and 23 passengers were killed, the Defense Ministry has said A Russian An-26 military transport plane crashed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5218,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions\/5218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}