MOSCOW, May 3, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – An Armenian plane crashed into the Black Sea coast off Russian on Wednesday, May 3, killing all 113 people on board.

"According to our initial information, all the passengers and crew who were on board died," a spokesman for Russia's emergency situations ministry told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

The Airbus A320 disappeared from radar screens at 2.15 a.m. (2215 GMT Tuesday) as it made a second attempt to land at Adler airport near Sochi, said Andrei Agatyanov, a senior official with Armenian national airline Armavia.

The plane had been making a short flight of about an hour from the Armenian capital Yerevan. Most of the passengers were Armenians.

Among the killed were five children and eight crew members, Agatyanov said.

An emergency situation ministry spokesman said the bodies of 25 passengers had been recovered from the scene.

More than 20 boats were scouring the site, hoping to find the plane's black box flight recorder that would help explain the crash, the spokesman said.

Rescuers, who were equipped with an underwater submersible vessel, had discovered what appeared to be the plane's tail section, Interfax said.

"The main parts of the plane are located at around 400 meters depth," one official said.

Investigators believe bad weather was the reason for the crash.

"At the moment, we have absolutely no evidence pointing to the possibility of a terrorist act on the plane," Deputy General Prosecutor Nikolai Shepel told Interfax news agency.

Shocked relatives of the dead gathered at Yerevan airport for a flight to take them to Sochi.

Shocked relatives of the dead gathered at Yerevan airport for a flight to take them to Sochi.

"My mum was on the plane. She had gone to visit her sisters who she hadn't seen in 15 years," said one teenager, Apet Tatevosyan.

"We thought she was going to call -- when she didn't, I was worried and called our relatives in Sochi who told us the news."

Khapet Tadevosyan, 32, wept as he was waiting.

"I was waiting for a call from my mother that she had arrived okay. But she did not phone, so I phoned myself and heard that this accident had happened," he told Reuters as he stood in the Yerevan airport building.