ARMENIAN CHURCH TO CONDUCT SPECIAL SERVICE IN MEMORY OF AIRBUS PASSENGERS KILLED ONE YEAR AGO
ARMENPRESS
May 03 2007
YEREVAN, MAY 3, ARMENPRESS: Catholicos Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch
of the Apostolic Armenian Church, will preside over a special liturgy
of repose of souls to be served on May 6 at the Holy Mother See
Etchmiadzin in memory of 113 people who were killed in an aircraft
crash on May 3, 2006.
The Armenian Airbus A-320 airliner crashed into the Black Sea off the
Russian coast near the resort town of Sochi in heavy rain on May 3,
2006 and all 113 passengers and crew on board were killed.
The plane operated by Armavia, Armenia’s largest carrier, had been
making a short flight of about an hour from the Armenian capital
Yerevan. Most of the passengers were Armenian nationals.