Armavia has no information on showdown on Airbus A320 board

Regnum, Russia
Oct 20 2006

Armavia Armenian Airlines has no information on a shootout allegedly
taken place on board of the Airbus A320 flying from Yerevan to Sochi
on May 3, 2006 and resulting in its crash near Sochi coast. The
announcement is made by spokeswoman for the airlines Jasmen Vilyan
while she was commenting on a statement by former pilot of the airlines
Vladimir Pogosyan, who claimed that the A320 crashed in a result of
a showdown onboard.

As Jasmen Vilyan said, "if they have such information, they should
go to the Prosecutor General’s Office to investigate the facts
provided." If the statements do not correspond with the reality,
Armavia can claim for instituting a criminal procedure on the
statements.

In its turn, Armenia’s General Department of Civil Aviation does not
either confirm or deny statements of certain persons concerning the
Yerevan-Sochi flight crash. They in the department stress that the
opinion of the institution remains the same and was presented by its
head Artyom Movsisyan. "The cause of the crash of the Armenian Airbus
A320 flying from Yerevan to Sochi on 3 May was lack of coordination
between actions of the crew in the last 17 seconds of the flight,"
Movsisyan is quoted as saying at a news conference on July 28.