NO TERROR LINK TO AIR CRASH
Daily Post (Liverpool)
June 20, 2006, Tuesday
Mersey Edition
THE Armenian airliner that crashed into the Black Sea last month
killing all 113 people aboard was intact, with its engines operating
normally and enough fuel to land prior to impact, a Russian investig
ating commission said today.
The Armavia Airbus A320 was also under manual control by its pilots
up to the moment of the May 3 pre-dawn catastrophe near the Russian
port of Sochi.
The commission, which analysed the plane’s "black box" flight
recorders, did not assign blame for the crash.
Prosecutors have dismissed the possibility that terrorists had brought
the plane down, and officials have pointed to rough weather or pilot
error as the likely cause.