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Body of crashed Russian plane found in Black Sea

'Divers have found the fuselage of the plane that crashed yesterday in the Black Sea'

Afp December 26, 2016

A picture shows candles and flowers layed next to a picture of an airplane at a memorial on a pier outside Sochi, on December 26, 2016, as Russia observes a national day of mourning a day after a military plane carrying 92 people, including dozens of members of the Red Army Choir, crashed in the Black Sea. PHOTO: AFP

MOSCOW: Russian divers on Monday found the main body of the military plane that crashed in the Black Sea with 92 people onboard, an official told Russian news agencies.

"Divers... have found the fuselage of the plane that crashed yesterday in the Black Sea," agencies quoted a member of the emergency ministry's Sochi-based search and rescue team as saying.