An-2 aircraft crashed in the Kotayk region of Armenia, reports Armenpress with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic.
“On July 19 at 09:30, the center of the Kotayk regional rescue department received a message that near the city of the Unified State Register, in the area under the name” Lcher “, the plane crashed, the dead were allegedly eating,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs said
According to preliminary data, two people were killed.
Later, the Ministry of Defense of Armenia confirmed that the plane crashed in the Kotayk region was a training aircraft.
I confirm that the crashed plane was training. The Ministry of Defense expresses condolences to family members, relatives and colleagues of the dead pilots, ”said Aram Torosyan, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defense of Armenia.