ArmenPress
June 23 2004
REASONS OF EMERGENCY LANDING TO BE ANNOUNCED IN TEN DAYS
YEREVAN, JUNE 23, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian Civil Aviation
Department said today a special commission set up to investigate why
a Russia-made TU-154 aircraft had to make an emergency landing 17
minutes after it took OFF from THE Yerevan Zvartnots airport on June
21, will issue its conclusion within the next ten days.
Serzh Manukian, a spokesman for the Department, told Armenpress
that the captain of the Russian plane, owned by Aeroflot, decided to
make the landing because of security reasons after detecting the
failure of one of the components of the second engine.