2 killed in a military aircraft crash in Armenia

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenian authorities say that a small training plane of the Armenian air force has crashed. The crash on Friday killed the two-member crew. Authorities said the Soviet-made Yak-52 aircraft crashed about 20 kilometers or about 12 miles north of Armenia’s largest city and capital Yerevan. They said the plane was on a training flight. The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately known. The Yakovlev Yak-52 is a Soviet-designed single-engine two-seat training and aerobatic plane. It has remained in operation in many countries around the world. Armenian authorities wrongly identified the crashed plane as an Antonov An-2 in their initial statements.