BREAKDOWN OF ROBOT PILOT OF AIRBUS A-320 COULD NOT LEAD TO AIR CRASH:
HONORED PILOT OF USSR

Yerevan, July 6. ArmInfo. The breakdown of one of the robot pilots of
Airbus A- 320 belonging to Armavia airline that crashed near Sochi
could not lead to the air crash. Dmitry Atbashyan, President of the
National Aviation Association of Armenia, honored pilot of USSR, made
this statements in an interview with ArmInfo commenting on the article
in the "Moskovsky Komsomolets" that the breakdown of the robot pilot
could be a reason of the crash. Atbashyan mentioned that A-320 has no
robot pilots, it has systems of stiffness and controllability. Probably
one of these systems failed, which, however, could not lead to the
crash, he said.

D. Atbashyan believes that a complex of reasons could lead to
the crash: breakdown of the equipment, bad weather, insufficient
equipment at the airport in Adler unable to fulfill even the commands
of the own federal administration. Among the key reasons of the crash
D. Atbashyan mentioned the strong wind shear. At the same time, he
called the acts of Grigor Grigoryan, crew captain, right in the given
situation. D. Atbashyan said he would act in the same way. Commenting
on the report of the "Moskovsky Komsomolets" that the interference
of the second pilot, whose acts contradicted to that of the captain
aggravated the situation, D. Atbashyan said it could not lead to the
crash but for "second causes". In addition, he believes that the crew
could not act in different ways. He thinks that the failure in the
systems could make commands contradicting to the acts of the pilots.

To recap, the crashed A-320 Airbus killed all on board.
From: Baghdasarian