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  • Family shattered by news of crash

    24 Hours (Toronto, Canada)
    July 17, 2009 Friday
    TORONTO EDITION

    Family shattered by news of crash

    BY CP


    A close family friend says a Toronto woman and her three-year-old son
    are among those killed in a plane crash near Tehran.

    Leonard Rideout says 35-year-old Nana Antashyam was flying to Armenia
    with her son, Edward Khachik, to make arrangements for her sister's
    birthday party.

    He says Antashyam's husband and brother-in-law dropped the mother and
    son off at the airport Wednesday only to hear news of the plane crash
    on the radio as they were driving home.

    Rideout says the family had left for Tehran in early July to baptize
    their son and adds Antashyam's husband, Vahik Khachik, is shattered by
    the news.

    Antashyam was a classical pianist and piano teacher with the Ontario
    Conservatory of Music.

    The cause of the crash was not yet known. Investigators have recovered
    two of the three black boxes belonging to the jetliner, which was
    bound for Yerevan, Armenia.
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