Second flight recorder of the crashed A-320 to be decoded in 2-3 weeks

ArmRadio.am
10.06.2006 14:15

The reason of May 3 crash of the A-320 of Armavia Company will be
known in two or three weeks. Different versions are suggested, varying
from terrorism to shortage of fuel. However, the real reasons will be
known only after the information of the flight recorders is decoded.

One of the black boxes ` the voice recorder has been already decoded,
but these are not made public. The decoding was carried out at the
Interstate Aviation Committee of Moscow. The conversations were in
Armenian. These were translated by RA Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary to Russia Armen Smbatyan. In his interview with
`Radiolur’ the Ambassador did not mention the reason of the crash; he
assured, however, that it was not terrorism. The Russian Ministry of
Transport informs that the recorder registered 33 minutes of voice
information, including the start and development of the emergency
situation.

It is expected that the decoding of the second black box will be
completed in 2-3 weeks, after which it will be possible to draw
conclusions about the technical state of the plane, RA Ambassador
Armen Smbatyan told `Radiolur.’

The Ambassador urges to wait a little to escape disseminating false
information.