BLACK SEA AIR CRASH SEARCH TO FOCUS ON BLACK BOXES THURSDAY

RIA Novosti, Russia
May 10 2006

SOCHI, May 10 (RIA Novosti) – Recovery teams are expected Thursday
to focus on the search for the flight data recorders of an Armenian
airliner that crashed off Russia’s Black Sea coast last week, emergency
services said Wednesday.

The search effort will be restarted when the hydroacoustic equipment
brought by French Airbus experts have been prepared, said Vladimir
Yerygin, who oversees technological support for the operation to
recover the black boxes. They are seen as the key to explaining why
the Airbus crashed killing all 113 people on board.

“The French experts brought the equipment yesterday, which will help
locate the A-320 flight recorders,” Yerygin said, adding that the
four beacons were at the Sochi seaport at the moment and it might
take six hours to deliver them onto boats and tune them.

In all, 51 bodies have been recovered so far.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress