Armenian airliner crashes into Black Sea with 100 aboard
MOSCOW, May 3 (Xinhua) -- An Armenian passenger plane with 100 people on board crashed early Wednesday into the Black Sea off the coast of the southern Russian resort of Sochi, Russian media reported.
Debris from the Armenian passenger aircraft has been spotted in the Black Sea some six km from shore, but so far no passengers or crew have been found, the Itar-Tass news agency quoted the Russian emergency situations ministry officials as saying.
The Airbus 320 was traveling from the Aremenian capital of Yerevan to the Black Sea resort of Sochi and vanished from radar screens near Sochi at about 2:15 a.m. (2215 GMT Tuesday), Itar-Tass quoted Viktor Beltsov, deputy head of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry's information department, as saying.
Beltsov said the plane was carrying 92 passengers, including five children, and eight crew members.
The emergencies ministry had sent an amphibious plane to the scene of the crash, the RIA news agency said. Enditem
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