Background
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 was a scheduled commercial flight from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Novosibirsk, Russia. The aircraft operating the route was a Soviet-made Tupolev Tu-154, carrying 66 passengers and 12 crew members.
Incident
On 4 October 2001, while en route over the Black Sea, the aircraft was shot down by a missile. The crash site is located approximately 190 km west-southwest of Sochi, Russia, 140 km north of Fatsa, Turkey, and 350 km south-southeast of Feodosiya in Crimea. There were no survivors.
Aftermath
Investigation revealed that the missile was launched during joint Ukrainian-Russian military air-defence exercises at the Russian-controlled training ground of the 31st Russian Black Sea Fleet Research center on Cape Opuk near Kerch, Crimea. Ukraine eventually admitted that it might have caused the crash, probably by an errant S-200 missile fired by its armed forces. Subsequently, Ukraine paid $15 million to surviving family members of the 78 victims.