Wednesday, March 14, 2012

All perish in Black Sea jetliner crash

ADLER, Russia - An Armenian passenger plane crashed in stormyweather today off Russia's Black Sea coast while readying to land,killing all 113 people on board - most of them Armenians.

The Airbus A-320, which belonged to the Armenian airline Armavia,disappeared from radar screens about four miles from shore andcrashed after making a turn toward the Adler airport near thesouthern Russian city of Sochi, emergency official Viktor Beltsovsaid.

Officials said all 113 people aboard the plane, including sixchildren, were killed. It was the worst air disaster in Armenia'srecent history.

Armenian airline officials said they believed the crash was due tothe weather - …

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