OPERATION TO LIFT A-320 AIRBUS FLIGHT RECORDERS STARTED IN SOCHI

PanARMENIAN.Net
16.05.2006 12:49 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Vessel Navigator having a robot aboard arrived from
Sochi at the location, where A-320 airplane fell. By means of the
robot rescuers hope to lift airborne recorders of the liner from the
Black Sea bottom. They are at the depth of some 500 meters and they
will help determine the cause of the catastrophe. Several days may be
spent on search for the flight recorders – it depends on the weather.

Today the visibility is enough and the deep-water device will work
round the clock.

On the night of May 3 a Yerevan-Sochi plane of Armavia Armenian air
company crashed in the Black Sea 6 km away from Adler airport. All
113 passengers, including 6 children and 8 members of the crew, died
as a result. Among them were 26 Russian citizens, one Ukrainian and
one Georgian citizen, while the rest were Armenian citizens.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress