Plane crashes off Russian coast
Posted on: Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 20:56 CDT
MOSCOW (Reuters) - An Armenian aircraft carrying about 100 people on a flight from Yerevan to the Russian seaside resort of Sochi crashed into the Black Sea early on Wednesday, the emergencies ministry said.
A ministry spokesman said helicopters sent to the scene had seen fragments of the plane on the surface of the sea.
"The fragments were found six km (4 miles) from the shore near the airport of Adler. The search operation continues," Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov said.
He said the plane was an Airbus 320 and had vanished from radar screens at 2.15 am (6:15 p.m. EDT) near Sochi, a Russian resort near the Georgian border that has been popular with top officials since Soviet times.
Adler is the name of the region of Sochi that houses the town's airport.
The plane was carrying at least five children, and difficult weather conditions were complicating the search for survivors.
The ministry said the jet belonged to Armavia, the largest airline in the former Soviet Republic of Armenia, which has three Airbus 320s of the kind that crashed.
Armavia was not available for comment, and its Web site did not show any details of the crash.
Source: REUTERS
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