Congo Aircraft Crash Kills 30 Next to Brazzaville.

Emergency workers in the Republic of Congo say no less than 30 people were killed when a cargo plane slammed in homes near Brazzaville's international airport on Friday.

The victims included almost all six crew members on the Soviet-era cargo plane, along with local people who were killed in the event the plane skidded off your runway and ploughed in a residential area.

Armenia's Foreign Ministry confirmed Saturday which the pilots were Armenian.

The actual plane, a four-engine jet freighter, went down while attempting to land at the Brazzaville Maya-Maya international airport.

There was no official word on which caused the crash. Witnesses say the aircraft was attempting to land during a violent storm.

The plane had earlier removed from from the western port city of Pointe-Noire.