A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(Russia)" id="mwAes" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ministry of Defence (Russia)">Russian Defence Ministry</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-154" id="mwAew" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tupolev Tu-154">Tupolev Tu-154</a> carrying members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandrov_Ensemble" id="mwAe0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alexandrov Ensemble">Alexandrov Ensemble</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Russian_Defence_Ministry_Tupolev_Tu-154_crash" id="mwAe4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash">crashes</a> into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea" id="mwAe8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Black Sea">Black Sea</a> shortly after takeoff, killing all 92 people on board.<sup about="#mwt261" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-50"}}' id="cite_ref-50" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_25#cite_note-50" id="mwAfA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 50;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAfE">[50]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-50"><cite about="#mwt258" class="citation web cs1" id="mwCho"><a class="external text" href="https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20161225-0" id="mwChs" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Accident description"</a>. Aviation Safety Network<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwChw">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCh0">7 September</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt258" class="Z3988" id="mwCh4" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Accident+description&amp;rft.pub=Aviation+Safety+Network&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Faviation-safety.net%2Fdatabase%2Frecord.php%3Fid%3D20161225-0&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+25"></span></span>