KOCHARYAN THANKS PUTIN FOR HELP IN SOLVING PLANE CRASH MYSTERY
ITAR-TASS News Agency
May 24, 2006 Wednesday 12:33 PM EST
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan telephoned President Vladimir
Putin on Wednesday to thank Russian authorities for the effective and
large-scale participation of various services and agencies in the
operation to find and lift flight data recorders from the Armenian
Airbus-320 passenger plane that crashed in the Black Sea off Sochi
at the beginning of May.
Putin expressed hope that the lifting of the “black boxes” from
the crashed plane, which had become possible due to unique work of
top-level specialists, will shed light on the causes of the accident.
Of 113 people who were abroad the plane, 51 bodies have been found.
The Airbus A-320 of the Armenian airline Armavia plunged into the
Black Sea as it was making a landing manoeuvre in the early hours of
May 3. The accident claimed the lives of 113 people.