OFFICIAL CONCLUSION ABOUT REASON OF AIRBUS A-320 CRASH NEAR SOCHI TO BE MADE IN JULY

Yerevan, June 19. ArmInfo. The official conclusion of the Interstate
Aviation Commission about the reason of Airbus A- 320 crash near
Sochi will be made in July, Leonid Kashirskiy, the Chairman of the
Technical Commission of IAC for investigation of Airbus A-320 crash,
told ArmInfo correspondent.

According to Kashirskiy, the Commission has already started the
complex analysis of records of objective control means, during which
it is scheduled to carry out a semi-natural simulation of a flight
on the training simulator of airplane A-320. A conclusion will be
made about the reason of air crash, upon the analysis results and
conducted investigations, and recommendations for flight safety will
be given. Kashirskiy refused to give a preliminary conclusion about
the air crash reason.

To be noted, according to the IAC press-release, spread today,
the works for decoding of records, fixed by the airborne parametric
self-recorder, and synchronization of records of the airborne and
ground means of objective control are completed June 17, 2006, in
the Interstate Aviation Committee.

Earlier, it was informed about the completion of decoding of the
airborne audio self-recorder. The airborne parametric self- recorder
had registered the information about 8 flights, including the emergency
A-320 in the period from April 30 to May 3, 2006. The total duration
of recording made up about 26 hours 20 minutes, including the whole
record of the last flight, i.e. 1 hour 26 minutes. "Base upon the last
flight decoding results, it is determined that there was no destruction
of the airplane in the air, the engines had been working up to the
moment of the airplane impact with the water surface. Moreover,
there was enough fuel on board for safe completion of the flight,
and during the last minute, the fight was in a director regime with
the autopilot switched off", it is noted in the release.