‘BLACK BOXES’ OF THE CRASHED TU-154M AIRPLANE FOUND
ArmInfo
2009-07-16 12:22:00
ArmInfo. Two of the three "black boxes"of Tu-154M airplane, which
crashed on Wednesday near the Iranian city of Qazvin, have been
found. As Vesti TV channel reports quoting Head of the Crisis Working
Group of Iran’s Road and Transportation Ministry, Ahmad Majidi, the
found flight recorders have been seriously damaged. Nevertheless, the
Iranian specialists will do their best to decode the data and find
out the reasons of the tragedy. "If efforts to retrieve data from
the boxes fail, we shall have to request assistance of specialists
of the producer country", Majidi said. President of Iran Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad urged to hold a quick investigation of circumstances of
the plane crash. He also expressed his condolences to the families of
the killed and the whole Iranian people in view of the tragedy. Tu-154
airplane was flying from Tehran to Yerevan on Wednesday and crashed
near city of Qazvin.
According to the latest data, fire in one of the engines has become
the reason of the crash. The airplane has been fully destructed. Total
of 153 passengers and 15 crew members were on board of the crashed
plane. According to the Iranian sources’ data, all of them were
killed. Mourning has been declared in Armenia.