Wing flap fault behind Russia jet crash: report

Russian investigators looking into the crash of a military plane that crashed, killing all 92 on board, believe a fault with its wing flaps was the reason it plunged into the Black Sea, an investigative source has said. The plane, a Tupolev-154 belonging to the Defence Ministry, disappeared from radar screens 2 minutes after taking off Sunday from Sochi in southern Russia. The 3 black box flight recorders from the aircraft were found Tuesday, Russian news agencies said, amid unconfirmed reports that authorities had grounded all aircraft of the same type. The Life.ru news portal, which has close contacts to law enforcement agencies, said it had obtained a readout of one of the pilot's last words, indicating a problem with the wing flaps. <br/>