Four people, including three Armenian nationals were killed as a small plane crashed in Ryazan region of Russia on Sunday, July 13, according to RIA Novosti.

A Russian Emergencies Ministry report said that Eduard Arustamyan, the pilot (born in 1958), Karen Harutyunyan (born in 1981), Tigran Adamyan (born in 1987) and Valery Borisov (born in 1968) were killed as the plane crashed near the city of Spassk.

The aircraft apparently belonged to Arustamyan.