A-320 AIRPLANE COULD EASILY LAND FROM THE FIRST TURN

Yerevan, May 16. ArmInfo. The crashed A-320 airplane could easily
land in Sochi from the first turn, said on a award ceremony at the
Russian Security, Defense and Order Academy Mikhail Bagdasarov,
president of MIKA Limited company and owner of ArmAvia.

According to Bagdasarov, the weather conditions were surely bad,
but unable to impede the landing. He stressed that airbuses, unlike
old Soviet airplane, can land without problems in extreme weather
conditions. Commenting on the versions of the tragedy Bagdasarov
said that the only facts the Russian and Armenian authorities
officially stated are that the fuel of the airbus was sufficient,
the airplane functioned properly and that the skill of the pilots
cannot be doubted. He said that the authorities do not posses more
information and any version of the catastrophe is groundless yet. He
also denied that the crashed A-320 was repaired in Belgium. It was
under technical servicing in Budapest, Hungary.