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MOSCOW – A military plane with 10 people aboard crashed late Friday in Russia’s Far East, Russian news agencies reported.
ITAR Tass quoted an emergency ministry official as saying that the Tu-142-M3 anti-submarine turboprop crashed Friday in the Tatarsky Strait between the Pacific coast and Sakhalin Island.
The Interfax news agency quoted a Defense Ministry official as saying that the plane disappeared off radar screens shortly after 1100 GMT when it was finishing a training flight.
There were no immediate details on casualties.
Tu-142 M3 is a maritime reconnaissance aircraft that was widely used by the Soviet navy.