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    ARMENIAN AIRLINE LOSES SECOND JET

    BBC NEWS:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/ europe/4979252.stm
    2006/05/05 22:42:14 GMT

    A plane belonging to the Armenian airline Armavia has been destroyed
    by fire - only two days after another of its jets crashed, killing
    113 people.

    The Airbus A320 was in a hangar in Belgium that burned down on Thursday
    night. Three other planes in the hangar were also destroyed.

    Four workers were injured in the accident in Brussels.

    Meanwhile Armenia and Russia have begun periods of mourning for those
    killed in Wednesday's crash in the Black Sea.

    Most of the dead were Armenians on a flight from Yerevan to the
    Russian Black Sea city of Sochi, which crashed as it was attempting
    to land. The plane involved was also an Airbus A320.

    Russian searchers believe they have found the plane's flight recorders,
    at a depth of 680m (2,200ft) in the Black Sea.

    Ceremonies were held on Friday at the site of the crash, where
    relatives threw wreaths of flowers into the waters, and at churches
    in Armenia and Russia.

    Reserve plane

    It was not known what caused the accident in Brussels, where the
    Armavia jet was undergoing maintenance by the Belgian company Sabena
    Technics.

    It means Armavia has lost two of its fleet of five Airbuses within
    a few days.

    "This was a reserve airliner," said a spokesman for the airline.

    "We hope this accident will not wreck our overall flight schedule,
    and we will try and make up for the losses."

    Two other A-320s - one of them belonging to International Armenian
    Airlines - and a Belgian warplane were also destroyed in the fire.
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