AN ARMENIAN PASSENGER DIES ABOARD MOSCOW-YEREVAN FLIGHT
Russia & CIS General Newswire
January 7, 2008 Monday 12:45 PM MSK
An Armenian citizen has died aboard a Moscow-Yerevan passenger flight
after suffering a bout of a chronic disease, a source at Moscow
Sheremetyevo airport told Interfax on Monday.
The incident occurred in the early hours of Monday.
A Yerevan-bound plane with 52 passengers and a 9-member crew made an
unscheduled landing in Volgograd after one of the passengers felt sick,
the source said.
The passenger died during landing. He had been accompanied by a group
of relatives.
Volgograd airport authorities are currently handling the problem of
transporting the body to Yerevan.
"According to preliminary estimates, the death was caused by an
aggravation of a chronic disease," the source said.
No official information about the incident has been immediately
available.
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