The russian defence ministry said one of the tu-154 planes had lost from radar screens at about 5:25 a.m. (0225 gmt),just two minutes after taking off from adler in southern russia, where it stopped to refuel from moscow, en route to syria.
An undisclosed ministry source told russian news agencies that those that board plane had almost no chance of surviving and that no life rafts had been found.
Interfax cited another undisclosed source saying the plane had not sent an sos signal.
A ministry spokeman told reporter that The jet, a soviet-era design first introduced in the 1970s, had been carrying 84 passengers and 8 crew members, major-general igor konashenkov.
At least sixty were members of the red army choir, also known as the alexandrov ensemble, who were being flown out to russia's hmeymim air base in syria to entertain group of people in the run-up to the new year.
russian reporters 9 of them had also been on board as well as military servicemen.
Mr Konashenkov said small part broken off of the plane had been found at a depth of about seventy metres (yards) in the black sea about 1.5 km (1 mile) off the coast near the city of sochi.
" mr konashenkov said the search operation is continuing.
"He further said that four ships, five helicopters and a drone are working in the area, saying a military commission had flown to sochi to look into what is happened.
The interfax news agency cited an undisclosed source in the emergency services is saying that about six bodies had already been seen from the sea.
Unidentified security source Russia's ria news agency, said preliminary information indicated that the plane crashed because of a pilot error or technical malfunction.
Another source told russian agencies that the possibility of a militant act had been taken out,that The weather had been good.
According to the list of the defence ministry’ passengers, elizaveta glinka, a member of putin's advisory human rights council, was also on the plane.
Her mobile phone was turn off when she was called by reuters on sunday.
Dmitry peskov told reporter Kremlin spokman that on sunday was too early to say what had caused the crash.
Peskov said that the President vladimir putin was being kept constantly informed of the latest developments, peskov.
The investigators Russian military said in a statement that they had opened a criminal investigation into the crash.
putting expressed his deepest condolences to those who had lost loved ones in the crash and ordered prime minister dmitry medvedev to head a government investigatory commission into the crash the Kremlin said.
The defence ministry of Russia regularly flies musicians into syria to put on concerts for military personnel.
This is base they were heading for, hmeymim, is in latakia province.
He further said It is from there that russia launches air strikes against syrian rebels.
A russian military jet crashed in siberia with thirty nine people in side the plane as it tried to make an emergency landing near a soviet-era military base.
But Nobody was killed in that incident, though thirty two people were airlifted to hospital.
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