A-320 VOICE, DATA RECORDERS IN SATISFACTORY CONDITION – SOURCE

ITAR-TASS News Agency
May 29, 2006 Monday

The cockpit voice and flight data recorders from the Armenian A-320
passenger liner, which crashed near the Russian Black Sea resort of
Sochi in the small hours of May 3 killing 113 have been opened by
experts of the Interstate Aviation Committee probing into the causes
of the disaster, a source said.

“The information carriers recovered from the “black boxes” are in
satisfactory condition,” the source said, adding, “it will take one
month to retrieve all data.”

Earlier, IAC chief Tatyana Anodina said she doubted the integrity of
magnetic tape inside the recorders.

The information will be retrieved and interpreted in Russia with
the use of equipment provided by the French side – the A-320 liner
designers.