Small plane crashes in Armenia, killing pilot

Associated Press Worldstream
June 30, 2004 Wednesday
Small plane crashes in Armenia, killing pilot
YEREVAN, Armenia
A small agricultural plane crashed Wednesday in northeastern Armenia,
killing the pilot, emergency officials said. The X-32 agricultural plane, rented from a company in neighboring
Georgia, crashed while surveying forests outside the Agveran village
in the Kotaisky region, said Nikolai Grigorian, chief spokesman for
the Armenian Emergency Situations Ministry.
The pilot, David Kakhianidze, was killed, he said. The cause of the
crash was not immediately known and an investigation was opened.