113 killed as plane plunges into Black Sea

An Armenian passenger jet crashed in bad weather off the Black Sea coast while trying to make an emergency landing in Russia, killing all 113 people aboard.

The Airbus A-320, which belonged to the Armenian airline Armavia, disappeared from radar screens late last night, about 3.7 miles from the shore, and crashed after making a turn and heading towards Adler airport, near the city of Sochi, Viktor Beltsov, a spokesman for Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry, said.