YEREVAN, July 18 (RIA Novosti) - The remains of five Armenian citizens who died when an airliner crashed in Iran this week were flown to Yerevan on Saturday.
The Tu-154 of Iran's Capsian Airlines crashed in northern Iran on Wednesday en route from Tehran to Yerevan, killing all 153 passengers and 15 crew on board.
According to Iran's Foreign Ministry, 35 ethnic Armenians died, five of whom were Armenian citizens, as well as two Georgian citizens.
Relatives of the five victims also flew on the Caspian Airlines flight on Saturday. First aid workers were waiting at Yerevan's international airport to meet them, and grieving families were to receive police escorts for their journey home.
The three "black boxes" belonging to the aircraft have been recovered from the crash site on a farm in the Qazvin province. The flight recorders were badly damaged but could help investigators to identify the cause of the accident.
Iranian authorities said on Thursday the crashed Tu-154M was built in 1987, bought by Iran in 1998, and had an overhaul certificate valid until 2010.
