Armenian Plane Captain Saw 2 Blasts Aboard Crashed Tu-154 Plane

Captain of an Armenian Airlines flight bound from Simferopol to Yerevan reported seeing two explosions on board the TU-154 passenger plane that plunged into the Black Sea Thursday. Citing the Armenian captain, sources at the Yerevan Airport told RIA Novosti that one explosion went off in the air and the other as the wreckage hit the sea. The Armenian AN-24 plane was flying at an altitude of 6,000 meters when an explosion ripped through the Siberia Airlines' TU-154 plane flying a few kilometers higher en route to Novosibirsk from Tel Aviv. The plane fell into pieces and descended into the sea. Another explosion was sighted at that point and a large area of the sea became covered in white.