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		</div><p>Search teams have recovered a flight recorder from the Russian military plane that crashed into the Black Sea over the weekend, the defence ministry said.</p>
<p>All 92 people aboard the Tu-154 plane are believed to have died on Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern Russian city of Sochi.</p>
<p>The 84 passengers included dozens of singers from Russia&#8217;s world-famous military choir who were going to the Russian Air Force base in Syria to perform at a new year concert.</p>
<p>The defence ministry said one of the plane&#8217;s black boxes was found on the sea bed about a mile from shore. State television showed footage of searchers in an inflatable boat carrying a container with a bright orange object submerged in water.</p>
<p>The ministry said in a statement that the recorder, which has been flown to a ministry lab outside Moscow, did not sustain serious damage. The ministry said experts will need to clean the device in distilled water before they begin to retrieve data from it.</p>
<p>Mourners are continuing to take flowers to the pier of Sochi&#8217;s sea port as about 3,500 people, 45 ships and 192 divers sweep a large area for bodies and debris, and dozens of drones and several submersibles have also been involved in the search.</p>
<p>Rescue teams have recovered 12 bodies and numerous body fragments, which have been flown to Moscow for identification.</p>
<p>Divers have already found fragments of the fuselage, parts of the engine and various mechanical parts, the defence ministry said.</p>
<p>Officials have not announced the cause of the plane crash, but they have been anxious to end speculation that it might have been caused by a bomb on board or a portable air defence missile.</p>
<p>Some aviation experts have noted that the crew&#8217;s failure to communicate any technical problem, and a large area over which fragments of the plane were scattered, point to a possible explosion on board.</p>
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