Armenia has no plans to restrict air traffic with Russia

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian authorities do not plan to cancel civil flights to Russia following the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane.

Azerbaijan Airlines said the jet that crashed in Kazakhstan experienced “physical and technical external interference,” according to an early investigation.

“At the moment, nothing like that is in the plans,” Sona Harutyunyan, press secretary of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure of Armenia, told Interfax.

This ministry oversees the activities of the Civil Aviation Committee of Armenia.

Representatives of Armenian airlines also told Interfax that there are no changes in flights from the country to Russia.

At least 38 of the 67 people on board the plane were killed in the crash, Kazakh authorities confirmed, including two pilots and a flight attendant. People from Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan were among those on board, according to preliminary data from Kazakhstan’s transport ministry.