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Russia plans to resume Tu-142 search in Far East

Tu-142M3 maritime reconnaissance plane

13:02 25/05/2010

Russia will resume on May 28 a search for the bodies of the crew members of a Tu-142M3 maritime reconnaissance plane that crashed in the Tartar Strait in November 2009, a Pacific Fleet spokesman said on Tuesday

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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.