Not the kind of news you expect to see on a day as innocent as Valentine's Day.
A plane carrying 21 people has crashed on takeoff from Armenia's capital, but there were no deaths reported...What a miracle that no one was injured, but it seems suspicious that they have not yet identified the airline to which the plane belonged. Armavia was at the tip of my tongue, to be honest.
The plane, a Canadair CRJ-100, was heading for Minsk, Belarus, when it flipped over on the runway at Zvartnots Airport and burst into flames...
Update: Thanks to reader AB, it seems that the airline was Belavia, the national airline of Belarus. It is also revealed that the airplane's wing clipped the runway on takeoff, causing it to crash. On board were 4 citizens of Belarus, 1 of Russia, 1 of Ukraine, 5 of Georgia, and the rest of Armenia.
Source: AP
4 comments:
The airline was Belavia. Here's news footage of the plane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4z9UtE6Cqw
Thanks, AB!
8 people were injured some of them suffered serious burns.
Thanks God, no deaths.
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