MOSCOW, Dec. 28 (UPI) — Divers recovered the second flight data recorder from Sunday’s crash of a Russian military plane in the Black Sea, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday.
The ministry said searchers also recovered 12 large plane fragments and more than 1,500 smaller fragments. The search operations headquarters said it found 15 bodies of those aboard, as well as many fragments of bodies.
The primary flight recorder was found Tuesday.
The aging TU-154 transport plane was traveling from Sochi, Russia to Latikia, Syria when it crashed soon after takeoff. The 92 aboard included 64 singers and musicians of the Alexandrov Ensemble, a celebrated military choir; Elizaveta Glinka, chief of Russia’s Spravedlivaya Pomoshch, or Fair Aid, charity; nine reporters; two government employees and a crew of nine. There were no survivors.
