NO RA CITIZENS IN CRASHED PLANE

armradio.am
25.08.2008 15:56

A passenger jet carrying 90 people crashed shortly after takeoff
Sunday near the Kyrgyz capital, killing 65.

The Boeing 737-200 was headed to Iran when it crashed near Bishkek’s
Manas International Airport. Twenty-two people, including two crew
members, survived.

Among the survivors were seven out of 17 members of a basketball
team from a school in the capital Bishkek. However, it was said later
that the athletes were volleyball, not basketball players. Eighteen
survivors were in hospital and four others were sent home with no
serious injuries.

Kyrgyzstan’s Prime Minister Igor Zudinova informed that 51 of the
passengers were foreigners, including citizens of Iran, Turkey
and Canada.

Head of Media Relations Division of RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Tigran Balayan informed that according to official information there
were no citizens of the Republic of Armenia in the Boeing 737-200
that crashed in Bishkek.