Plane's engine working before Black Sea crash

The Armenian airliner that crashed into the Black Sea last month killing all 113 people aboard was intact, with its engines operating normally and enough fuel to land prior to impact, a Russian investigating commission said today.

The Armavia Airbus A320 was also under manual control by its pilots up to the moment of the May 3 pre-dawn catastrophe near the Russian port of Sochi, the Transport Ministry commission said in a statement.