A 320 FLIGHT DATA RECORDER FOUND AT THE CRASH SIGHT SERIOUSLY DAMAGED

Regnum, Russia
May 23 2006

By calculations of experts from the Russian Transport Ministry,
flight data recorder of the A 320 belonging to Armavia Armenian
Airlines can be lying within a radius of five meters from the place
where the flight communication recorder was found. Search operation
to find the second flight recorder has continued at present moment.

Earlier, on May 22, flight communication recorder was found.

Theoretically, first results of decoding the tape can appear as early
as within 10-14 days. The flight recorder was seriously damaged.

The A 320 passenger aircraft crashed while approaching the airport of
Adler in the night of May 3. 113 people aboard died. The investigation
names several reasons for the tragedy; however, as experts point
out, a grounded conclusion can be made only after data of the flight
recorders are decoded.