MOSCOW, May 11 (RIA Novosti) - Air traffic controllers ordered an Armenian passenger plane to gain altitude before it crashed over the Black Sea last week killing 113 people, an investigation committee official said Thursday.
"It has been established that, due to poor weather, during landing an air traffic controller told the crew to stop descending and to make a right turn while simultaneously gaining altitude," said Aleksei Morozov, the head of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) department on investigation of plane crashes.
"The plane started to turn right and gain altitude, but then it began to descend and crashed into the water," Morozov said.
The Airbus A-320 operated by Armenia's Armavia was flying from the Armenian capital, Yerevan, to Adler airport, which services the popular Russian resort of Sochi, when it crashed 6 kilometers off the Russian coast early Wednesday morning last week.
