Russian Military Aircraft Crashes. There's something fishy here. 25 December 2016 Admin Blog, Politics, Tin Foil Hat Boutique The flight was carrying entertainers for Russian troops to Syria. It's attributed to technical failure or pilot error, and happened 2 minutes after takeoff from an airport near Sochi, located on the Black Sea. I can't see no communications about a problem if their was any kind of failure. I saw something elsewhere about a (criminal) investigation being launched on Putin's order, which seems strange since one would be launched anyway.Russian Military Aircraft Crash