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    PLANE CRASHES IN RUSSIA WITH 100 ABOARD

    AP
    Wednesday May 3, 2006 2:46 AM

    MOSCOW (AP) - An Armenian passenger jet with 100 people aboard crashed
    early Wednesday off the Black Sea coast shortly before it was to land
    in the Russian city of Sochi, Russian news agencies reported.

    Wreckage from the plane was found not far from the shoreline, the
    ITAR-Tass news agency reported, quoting Russian Emergency Situations
    spokesman Viktor Beltsov. The Interfax news agency reported that
    rescue teams at the site pulled the body of a woman from the sea.

    The Airbus A-320, which belonged to the Armenian airline Armavia,
    disappeared from radar screens at about 2:15 a.m. local time, the
    RIA-Novosti agency reported. It was flying from the Armenian capital
    Yerevan to Sochi, a resort city on the Black Sea in southern Russia,
    and was carrying 92 passengers - including five children - and eight
    crew members, ITAR-Tass reported.

    Rescuers found parts of the plane nearly four miles from the shore,
    along with empty lifejackets - an indication that passengers had no
    time to put them on, ITAR-Tass quoted an unidentified local emergency
    official as saying. The rescuers were working in a driving rain,
    Russian news agencies reported.
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