BLACK BOXES FROM CRASHED A-320 TO BE HANDED OVER TO AIRBUS
by Tigran Liloyan
ITAR-TASS News Agency
May 16, 2006 Tuesday
When recovered from the Black Sea bottom, the cockpit voice and flight
data recorders from the crashed A-320 liner of the Armenian air
carrier Armavia will be handed over to the bureau of investigation
of the aircraft-building concern Airbus, the owner of the company
that operated the lost plane, Mikhail Bagdasarov, has told the media.
The voice and flight data recorders have special codes known only to
Airbus specialists, Bagdasarov said. There is a possibility Russian
and Armenian experts will be invited to participate in retrieving
and interpreting flight data.
The crew of the Armenian liner was a well-trained one, the plane
itself was in normal technical condition and it had enough fuel,
the air carrier’s owner said.
“True, the weather in the area of Sochi’s Adler airport was bad,
but not so bad to prevent an Airbus plane from landing safely,”
Bagdasarov said.
Representatives of the British insurance company are arriving in
Yerevan later on Tuesday.
“We have been conducting negotiations with them. It looks like the
insurer is prepared to pay compensations to the relatives of all 113
victims of the disaster,” Bagdasarov said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
