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Officials said Tu-22M3 plane made a hard landing after a training flight.

(Representational)Moscow: Three Russian bomber crew members died and another was injured when their plane crashed on a training flight Tuesday, Moscow's defense ministry said, days after a deadly collision between two jets."A Tu-22M3 plane made a hard landing after a training flight due to going into a snow flurry," falling apart on impact, TASS agency quoted defense ministry as saying. "Two pilots have been sent to a medical facility two crew members have died," it said.

The plane was not carrying munitions, it said.A third pilot died from injuries later, a representative of regional trauma hospital told agency.The incident occurred in Russia's northern Murmansk region.

Sources told Russian agencies that emergency services were trying to put out a fire at accident site.Tu-22M3 is a strategic long-range bomber originally developed in 1970s.

Some of these planes participated in Russia's Syria campaign, their strikes against Islamic State jihadists widely publicised on Russian television.A crew of four operates plane.The accident comes less than a week after two Su-34 bombers collided in Russian Far East during a scheduled training exercise last Friday.Only one of four crew members involved, all of whom were able to eject, has been rescued alive.

Bodies of two pilots were recovered, while fourth person has not been found.The two recovered bodies are to be buried on Wednesday in their Siberian hometown Barnaul, local media said.(This story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)





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