As we have informed, yesterday, the cargo aircraft taking the flight from Libya to Armenia landed at “Shirak” airport, Gyumri. “Zvartnots” airport Spokesman Gevorg Abrahamyan told Aravot.am that this aircraft had made a scheduled landing at “Shirak” airport, it should not have landed at “Zvartnots” airport, and according to our information that the latter was not allowed to land at “Zvartnots” airport because of the fear of Ebola, are not true.
According to Gevorg Abrahamyan, it always landed at “Shirak” airport. Vardan Urutyan, Head of Shirak Office of National Center for Disease Control and Prevention at the Ministry of Health, who promptly had sent the epidemiologists to “Shirak” airport and considered his duty to investigate and take the data of the crew, also reported some details to Aravot.am, “We received information “Shirak” airport that a non-scheduled cargo aircraft from Libya was to land at Gyumri. Of course, Libya is not in the list of countries presenting risk of Ebola, but since it is an African country, for the sake of safety, I promptly sent our epidemiologists to the airport. Only after taking the temperature of the crewmembers and making some investigations, they were allowed to get off the plane. Naturally, we gathered information about them, registered the passport data and found out that 3 of them are from the Russian Federation, 1 – from Ukraine and the rest from Estonia. They were in Libya, but in a closed area, they were not allowed to leave the airport in Libya and spent an overnight there. Then, they traveled to Armenia, I do not know why, but they arrived in Gyumri by an unscheduled flight. I cannot tell why the plane did not land at “Zvartnots” airport, they informed us that they were supposed to land at “Zvartnots”, so it was planned initially, but on the way, they had received instructions from their leadership to land at Gyumri. They are very intelligent and educated people, they are also very well aware of the risks of Ebola. We registered that they are from “Veteran Avia” company and transport cargo, they will stay in Armenia until their leadership gives a command where to fly after the cargo, they do not how long they will stay, maybe they will fly to Leningrad or a different city right tomorrow. In short, they are waiting for instructions. Now, they are at “Vanatur” hotel in Gyumri, in the evening, I, personally, together with the epidemiologist, visited the hotel; we took measures so that, God forbid, something would not happen suddenly, but I repeat that they are healthy people. We had done all of this to be on the safe side,” said our interlocutor. We tried to contact the “Veteran Avia” company Armenia representatives by the telephone number taken from the “Spyur” Information Center, but their phone numbers did not work, sometimes we could hear that this number does not exist, or the number was busy. However, it should be noted that, according to the Internet data, this airline was founded in 2009, in Sharjah Emirate, the United Arab Emirates, and its main base is in Yerevan, “Zvartnots” airport, it performs cargo transportation to Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Nune AREVSHATYAN
congratulations, Nune Arevshatyan , for your perseverance !!
What surprise , hey ! From Emirates , and main based in Erevan ! For sure , they have nothing to hide ,
haven’t they ?? You should observe them nearerly in future ; may be you’ll discover more …