OFFICIAL: 28 OF BLACK SEA AIR CRASH VICTIMS IDENTIFIED
Interfax, Russia
May 4 2006
SOCHI. May 4 (Interfax) – The bodies of 48 of the 113 people killed
in the crash of an Armenian airliner off the Russian Black Sea coast
on Wednesday have been pulled from the water, and 28 of them have
been identified, a senior official said on Thursday.
Gen. Sergei Kudinov of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry
cited the statistics in talking to reporters.
The plane, an Airbus A-320, was flying from Yerevan to the Russian
Black Sea resort of Sochi and crashed in stormy weather while on
approach to landing at Adler airport near Sochi.