SECOND BLACK BOX RECORDER FROM CRASHED ARMENIAN AIRBUS RECOVERED

Agence France Presse — English
May 23, 2006 Tuesday 11:56 PM GMT

The second black box flight recorder from an Armenian Airbus passenger
plane that crashed in the Black Sea earlier this month was recovered
from the sea bed overnight,the Russian transport ministry said
Wednesday.

The instrument will give investigators technical details of the doomed
flight, according to the Interfax news agency.

All 113 passengers and crew died when the Armavia airlines Airbus A320,
which had taken off from Yerevan, crashed May 3 during its approach
to Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi. Eighty-five of the victims
were Armenians, many of them on family visits.

The other flight recorder, with voice recordings, was pulled out
on Monday.

There has so far been no official word on the possible cause of
the crash.