AIRBUS EXPERTS DEPART FROM FRANCE TO SOCHI

Regnum, Russia
May 3 2006

Airbus experts will participate in investigating the aircraft crash
in Krasnodar Region. The A-320 plane that crashed near Sochi was
produced by the Airbus Company, report Vesti.ru.

The A-320 airbus was delivered to Armenia in 2004 and has had about
14,000 flights. A crash of a plane of the A-320 type was the first
one in Russia. However, in the world planes of this type have had
several crashes in recent years.

The first group of relatives of the A-320 passengers, who were flying
from Yerevan to Sochi, has started identification of the victims.

According to Head of the Russian Transport Ministry Igor levitin,
the relatives were brought to Sochi Hospital No 4 for identification
procedure. 46 bodies of the ill-fated flight passengers have been
taken out from the Black Sea.