THE RUSSIAN SIDE WORKS VERY WELL, RA AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA CONSIDERS

ArmRadio.am
22.05.2006 15:22

The recent pessimistic statements from Russia about the search for
the black boxes of the crashed A-320 create the impression that there
isn’t the earlier interest in finding the recorders of the plane and
revealing the real reasons of the disaster. The opinion is not shared
by RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Russia Armen
Smbatyan, who said in his interview to ” Radiolur” correspondent Zara
Sargsyan, “The Russian side is working very well. They apply every
effort to extract the black boxes. I’m sure that at least one of the
boxes will be lifted.”

Commander in Chief of the Air Forces of Russia Vladimir Mikhailov
declared on May 16 that the Armenian A-320 crashed because the pilots
did not consider the weather conditions.

In his words, the captain of the plane took a completely correct
decision to return to Yerevan.

“They had to return,” Vladimir Mikhailov said.

He declared also that the expenses for extracting the black boxes of
the crashed plane are not justified.

It has been a week already that we know only the scarce information
that the recorders lie 496 meters deep in the water and the distance
between the black boxes is five meters.

According to the data provided by the operative staff, RT-1000 robot
was applied, which came across “fragments resembling those of the
black boxes of the crashed A-320.” Some fragments are suck into mud,
which slows down the search works. The search works are hindered also
because of weather conditions.

Besides, the devise cannot operate long under water. The specialists
have to extract the devise from the water to clear the camera and
the searchlights of mud.

It is not known how long the search works will last. 17 days have
passed since the disaster. In 13 more days it will be useless to
speak about the extraction of the black boxes and decoding of the
information, since in a month the radio beacons stop to produce
signals.