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On May 4, at 10:30 p.m. 26 vehicles of all the morgues of Yerevan were waiting in the cargo parking of Zvartnots airport of Yerevan. They were waiting for the bodies to arrive by plane. There were police cars there as well; they were going to escort the bodies to the morgues. Police officers had …

According to the information of the Holy Armenian Church of Echmiadzin, today at 6:00 p.m. there will be mourning ceremony at the Saint Grigor Lusavorich Church headed by the Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin the second, dedicated to the victims of the May 3 plane crash.

“Armavia is currently working on providing compensation to the relatives of the victims and re-coordinate its staff”, said Mikhail Baghdasarov in his interview given to Panorama.am. According to him he has had a meeting with the board of the company and “told them that the company still exists and operates”. “We must work because people …

Yesterday four planes were burnt in Brussels, two of which were Armenian aircrafts. What’s interesting is that both these planes were A320 model planes, one of which belongs to the Armavia airline company and had been taken to Brussels for technical examination. The other Armenian jet was the property of “International Armenian Airways” company, which …

Even Russia’s and Armenia’s approaches to finding the black boxes are suspicious. This fact makes people and specialists assume that something fishy is going on, or there is some secret behind this. This means that they have either given little information about this or simply hidden the truth. Only guilty people do this. In this …

The whole world is waiting for new information concerning the tragic plane crash in Sochi. Officials don’t condemn anyone yet, but in spite of this, news agencies bring up different scenarios, some of which are contradicting each other. Yesterday the most active one to write about this was the Russian press (foreign mass media writes …

The passengers on the first plane were the relatives of the victims of the plane crash (120 people), who had left for Sochi on the day of the crash to find the bodies of their relatives and bring them to Yerevan. Minutes later, the IL-87 plane of the Russian Emergency Situations Department arrived at “Zvartnots” …

Everyone in Sochi recognized the “Porshe” Jeep of Atom Kostanyan, who was one of the victims of the A-320 plane crash. They say that the large businessman from Yerevan, the monopolist in tuff production, head of the brandy factories and, as they say, close friend of President Robert Kocharyan, always loved traveling from Yerevan to …

In the early hours of May 3, the Yerevan-Sochi “A-320” plane crashed in the Black Sea. This was the first crash in its kind since Armenia’s declaration of independence. 113 people died as a result of the crash, including eight staff members, 125 passengers of which 6 were children. Seventy-seven passengers were citizens of Armenia, …

“168 Hours” wasn’t the only one waiting for airplane staff member Anaida Abelyan to return from Sochi yesterday, but also her son serving in the army who had come to Yerevan on a short vacation just to see his mother. But unfortunately, his mother didn’t make it to the homeland. She was one of the …