Monument in memory of A-320 air crush victims placed in Sochi

PanARMENIAN.Net - A monument has been placed in Sochi in connection with the first anniversary of the A-320 air tragedy. In May 2006 the Armenian airplane crushed into the water near Adler airport. Head of Russian south Eparchy of the Armenian Apostolic Church Movses Movsesyan sanctified the monument, which was placed on the territory of "St. Minasyan" Armenian church. Almost 40 relatives of those who died in the result of the air catastrophe arrived in Sochi with a charter flight organized by "Armavia" air company, which owned the crushed A-320. Besides, Armenia's Consul General in the South Federal District Ararat Gomtsyan, Mayor of Sochi Viktor Kolodyazhni, Chairman of UAR (Union of Armenians of Russia) Sochi branch Hakob Qochkanyan attended the mourning ceremony. Also several thousand of Sochi residents as well as guests of the resort town came to honor memory of those who died in the result of the air disaster, Interfax reports.



At he end of the ceremony its participants put to the Black Sea on a boat and reached the place of tragedy, where they lowered mourning wreaths on the water.



A year ago on the night of May 3 an "Armavia" A-320 airplane, which was flying from Yerevan to Moscow, fell to the sea near Adler airport. All 113 people on the board, including 105 passengers and 8 crew members died in the result of the crush.