SECOND FLIGHT RECORDER RAISED FROM BLACK SEA AT A-320 CRASH SITE
Interfax, Russia
May 24 2006
MOSCOW. May 24 (Interfax) – The second cockpit voice recorder from
the A-320 Armenian Airlines passenger liner, which crashed into the
Black Sea on May 3, has been recovered, Alexander Davydenko, head
of the Transport Ministry’s Federal Sea and River Transport Agency,
told Interfax.
The flight recorder was discovered at about midnight in a 50-
centimeter thick layer of silt on the seabed, 16 meters from the place
where the first black box had been found, Russian Transport Minister
and chairman of the inter-state commission Igor Levitin told Interfax
early on Wednesday.
“Given a bad weather forecast, the decision was made to lift the
flight recorder during the night,” Davydenko said, adding that the
second black box was raised at 3 a.m. on Wednesday.
The first cockpit voice recorder was recovered on Monday and handed
over to the Inter-State Aviation Committee’s technical commission.
The A-320 Armavia airliner crashed into the Black Sea six kilometers
off the coast of Sochi. All 113 people on board were killed.