Commission: Armenian Plane Intact, Engines Working Before Crashing I

COMMISSION: ARMENIAN PLANE INTACT, ENGINES WORKING BEFORE CRASHING INTO BLACK SEA

AP Worldstream
Jun 19, 2006

The Armenian airliner that crashed into the Black Sea last month
killing all 113 people aboard was intact, had its engines operating
normally and had enough fuel to land, a Russian commission said Monday.

The Armavia Airbus A-320 was under manual control of its pilots up to
the moment of the May 3 pre-dawn catastrophe near the Russian port of
Sochi, the Transport Ministry commission investigating the disaster
said in a statement.

The commission, which based its conclusions after analyzing the plane’s
"black box" flight recorders, did not attribute blame for the crash.

Prosecutors have dismissed the possibility that terrorists brought
the plane down, and officials point to rough weather or pilot error
as the likely cause. Armavia officials have suggested that air traffic
controllers were at least partly to blame, giving the pilots improper
instructions.

The commission said it planned further analysis of the recorders and
computer modeling to determine a cause.

The flight was en route to Sochi from the Armenian capital, Yerevan.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS