AIRPLANE OF BELAVIA COMPANY IMPLEMENTING YEREVAN – MINSK FLIGHT TAKES FIRE: THERE ARE NO VICTIMS

Noyan Tapan
Feb 14, 2008

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 14, NOYAN TAPAN. At 4:30 on February 14 the CGR-100
airplane of the Belavia company during the Yerevan – Minsk flight
from the Zvartnots airport hit the air strip with its left wing and
took fire.

As Gayane Davtian, the Spokesperson of the Head of the RA Civil
Aviation Department, informed Noyan Tapan, the collaborators of the
Rescue Service have taken 18 passengers and three crew members out
of the airplane. There are no victims. Those injured with different
degrees of burns have been taken to hospital. There were 16 Armenians
among the passengers. The airport was closed, the collaborators of
the prosecutor’s office were conducting corresponding work.