BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

14/02/2008

Crashed airplane in Yerevan was registered in Bulgaria

FOCUS News Agency

Yerevan. The Armenian President Robert Kocharyan has called an extraordinary meeting where he has announced details surrounding the crash of an airplane of the Belavia air company at the airport of Zvartnotz in Yerevan, Novosti-Armenia reports.

The aircraft SRG-100 crashed on Thursday at 4.18 am local time, shortly after takeoff. At an altitude of five meters, the plane rolled severely to the left and after pilot's attempt to stabilize the aircraft, the right wing hit the ground. As a result the airplane broke in half and caught fire.

There were no victims onboard. 6 of the 18 passengers were hospitalized. According to the information the aircraft was manufacture din 1999. It is owned by a German company, the registration was made in Bulgaria and the exploitation is done by Belarus.

Source:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n133671

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