The Ukrainians were conducting an air defense exercise that day and someone fouled up and targeted the airliner.
It is confirmed crashed... wreckage found.. doesn't look good...
-Wreckage from the plane was found not far from the shoreline, Beltsov said.
-He said preliminary information indicated there were 114 people aboard.
-Rescuers found parts of the plane about four miles from the shore, along with empty lifejackets — an indication that passengers had no time to put them on
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060503/ap_on_re_eu/russia_plane_crash
Plane was on approach...
The rescuers were working in a driving rain, Russian news agencies reported, and Beltsov said weather conditions were poor at the time the plane went down.