RUSSIAN MIG-29 WARPLANE WRECKED IN ARMENIA DISCOVERED

First class pilot major Constantine Kardash was killed in a crash of MiG-29 Russian pursuit plane in Armenia yesterday. Today at 11:40 a.m. local time the search group discovered the body of the pilot, reported press secretary of the defense ministry of Armenia colonel Seyran Shahsuvarian. According to preliminary data, the catapult functioned when the plane stroke the ground. This happened near Jajur village in the northwest of the republic, not far from Gumri city. It should be noted that the search and rescue group reached the location on a slope of Urasar mount, where the plane fell, at 10:15 a.m. Yesterday the search for the plane was suspended due to getting dark and the snow becoming more abundant. As chief of the press service of the Air Force of Russia colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky told “Interfax” agency, the flights of MiG-29 pursuit planes are temporarily suspended, until a special order is received from the command “when the causes of the flight incident are determined.”