EMBASSY: UK READY TO HELP GET PLANE WRECKAGE FROM SEAFLOOR
Interfax, Russia
May 4 2006
MOSCOW. May 4 (Interfax) – Britain is ready to help Russia raise the
remains of an airliner that crashed on Wednesday, killing all 113
people on board, but has not yet received any request from Russia
to that effect, a spokesman for the British Embassy in Moscow told
Interfax on Thursday.
Earlier on Thursday, Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin announced
that Russia would ask other countries to help retrieve what has
remained of the Airbus A-320, which belonged to the Armenian airline
Armavia and fell into the Black Sea as it was getting ready to land
at Adler airport in Russia after a flight from Yerevan.
“We will ask other countries, which have experience at a depth of
680 meters,” Levitin told reporters in Sochi.
In August 2005, a six-member British team, using a Scorpio submersible,
rescued the crew of a Russian mini-submarine that had got entangled
in a fishing net at a depth of 190 meters off the coast of the Russian
peninsula of Kamchatka. The United States and Japan were also involved
in the operation.