EXPLOSION TOOK PLACE ON A-320 PLANE CRASHED IN MAY, ARMENIAN AIRLINES
FORMER PILOT DECLARES

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Oct 19 2006

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The A-320 plane carrying out
Yerevan-Sochi flight, crashed in May, was not uncontrollable and
the real reason of its crash was an explosion. Vladimir Poghosian,
former pilot of Armenian Airlines, declared at the October 19 press
conference. In his words, the heads of flight organization, including
Zvartnots airport’s and Armavia’s flight security departments, are to
blame for the plane crash. In V.Poghosian’s words, before getting on
the plane an argument broke out between two criminal groups, but "they
were premitted to get on the plane where this argument continued." In
his words, "four citizens of Russia rang up and said that shots are
fired on the plane."

As V.Poghosian said, there were traces of shots on the corpses of the
victims. He expressed bewilderment in connection with the fact that
the Armenian side did not express willingness to examine the victims’
corpses. Meanwhile, V.Poghosian refused to mention the facts his
statements are based on.