MOSCOW, May 3 (RIA Novosti) - Poor visibility might have caused an Armenian airliner to crash over the Black Sea with the loss of all 113 people on board, an expert with Russia's Air Traffic Organization said Wednesday.
Heavy rain meant visibility was just four kilometers when the Airbus A-320 jet flying from the capital of Armenia, Yerevan, to an airport servicing the popular Russian resort of Sochi crashed shortly before landing, the source said.
"These were the actual weather conditions at the moment of the crash: the lowest level of cloud lay at 100 meters, visibility was at four kilometers, and it was raining heavily."
Investigators trying to establish the cause of the accident are looking into poor weather conditions and human error, Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said.
