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A search team member said that the recovery operation could resume on Monday, as soon as weather conditions improve

05:1914/11/2009

A search for the wreckage of a Russian military Tu-142 plane that crashed last Friday to the surface in the Tatar Strait, was suspended due to bad weather.

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The crash of a Tu-142 military plane

A Tu-142M3 Bear-F plane with 11 people on board reportedly went down during a combat training flight around 21:19 local time (11:19 GMT) on Friday some 20 kilometers (12 miles) offshore in the Tatar Strait, which separates mainland Russia from the island of Sakhalin.

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Search for Tu-142 wreckage suspended over bad weather

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The crash of a Tu-142 military plane

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