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  • Air Disaster Involving Armenian Plane Shakes Armenia

    AIR DISASTER INVOLVING ARMENIAN PLANE SHAKES ARMENIA

    ITAR-TASS, Russia
    May 3 2006

    YEREVAN, May 3 (Itar-Tass) --Armenia has been shocked to hear the
    news about the air disaster involving an airbus A-320 owned by the
    Armavia Armenian company.

    Few people in Armenia are in the habit of listening to news on radio or
    television early in the morning; therefore, many people knew nothing
    about the tragedy early on Wednesday morning yet.

    There were 113 people on board, including twenty-eight Russian
    citizens, when the plane that performed a regular flight from Yerevan
    to Sochi on the Russian Black Sea coast crashed into the Black Sea
    off Adler airport.

    The plane took off at 1.47 a.m. local time (0.47 a.m. Moscow time).

    An air traffic controller warned the crew about bad weather in
    Sochi, and the crew decided to return to the home airport, said
    representatives of the Armavia company. However, a new weather forecast
    radioed on board said that weather conditions were improving, and
    the plane continued the flight. When the plane was approaching Adler
    airport weather conditions sharply worsened, and the pilots had to
    a make a second landing approach. Then, the plane disappeared from
    radar screens.

    Deputy Commerce director of the Armavia company Andrei Agadzhanov
    said that the plane was in perfect technical condition. First deputy
    director of the Armavia company Ashkharbask Kalantara said that the
    plane had undergone a pre-flight check made by the Yerevan personnel
    of the Sabena technical Belgian aircraft technical service company.

    The air disaster was a great shock to Armenia. People say they
    experienced a shock similar to the one caused by an air disaster
    in July, 1975 when a Yak- 40 plane crashed on the way from Yerevan
    to Batumi.

    Meanwhile, relatives of the victims killed in the plane crash have
    been coming to Yerevan airport pending a special flight that will
    take them to the area of the plane crash off the Russian coast. A
    special commission of the Armavia Company and the Head Civil Aviation
    Department under the Armenian government flew to Adler to inspect
    the area of the plane crash.
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