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  • Monument In Memory Of A-320 Air Crush Victims Placed In Sochi

    MONUMENT IN MEMORY OF A-320 AIR CRUSH VICTIMS PLACED IN SOCHI

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    04.05.2007 14:14 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ A monument has been placed in Sochi in connection
    with the first anniversary of the A-320 air tragedy. In May 2006 the
    Armenian airplane crushed into the water near Adler airport. Head
    of Russian south Eparchy of the Armenian Apostolic Church Movses
    Movsesyan sanctified the monument, which was placed on the territory of
    "St. Minasyan" Armenian church.

    Almost 40 relatives of those who died in the result of the air
    catastrophe arrived in Sochi with a charter flight organized by
    "Armavia" air company, which owned the crushed A-320. Besides,
    Armenia's Consul General in the South Federal District Ararat
    Gomtsyan, Mayor of Sochi Viktor Kolodyazhni, Chairman of UAR (Union
    of Armenians of Russia) Sochi branch Hakob Qochkanyan attended the
    mourning ceremony. Also several thousand of Sochi residents as well
    as guests of the resort town came to honor memory of those who died
    in the result of the air disaster, Interfax reports.

    At he end of the ceremony its participants put to the Black Sea on
    a boat and reached the place of tragedy, where they lowered mourning
    wreaths on the water.

    A year ago on the night of May 3 an "Armavia" A-320 airplane, which was
    flying from Yerevan to Moscow, fell to the sea near Adler airport. All
    113 people on the board, including 105 passengers and 8 crew members
    died in the result of the crush.
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