CHINESE PRESIDENT EXTENDS CONDOLENCES TO ARMENIA OVER JET CRASH

Source: Xinhua
People’s Daily Online, China
May 3 2006

Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday sent a message to his Armenian
counterpart Robert Kocharyan, expressing sincere condolences to the
relatives of those killed in a jet crash early Wednesday morning.

An Airbus A-320 of the Armenian airline belonging to the air company
Armavia went down into the Black Sea near the southern Russian resort
town of Sochi at about 2:15 a.m. Moscow time (2215 GMT Tuesday),
killing all 113 people on board, including six children and eight crew.

Bad weather conditions were responsible for the air tragedy.