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This morning the Emergencies Ministry in the Crimea announced that three people died when a four-person SOKATA TV-20 aircraft crashed in a field two kilometers from the village of Chornozomne on the peninsula.

According to the emergencies ministry website, the plane was flying from
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to the Tobasco aerodrome near the city of Yevpatoria.

The emergencies ministry said it is currently trying to establish the
identities of the deceased.

The cause of the
plane crash is currently being investigated.

Kyiv Post staff writer Mark Rachkevych can be
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