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Two dead in Armenia warplane crash: ministry
YEREVAN, Dec 4, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Two crew members died in an Armenian
warplane crash on Tuesday, the ex-Soviet republic’s defence ministry said.
Debris of the SU-25 fighter jet “was found in the mountains near the town
of Maralik” in Armenia’s western Shirak region, the ministry spokesman
Atrsrun Hovhannisyan said in a Facebook post.
“Two pilots, lieutenant colonel Armen Babayan and major Movses Manukyan,
were killed” in the crash, he said.
The aircraft disappeared from radars on Tuesday morning, minutes after it
took off for a routine training flight, the ministry had reported earlier.
BSS/AFP/SSS/1828 hrs