Armenian Airbus Flight Recorder Recovered From Black Sea

ARMENIAN AIRBUS FLIGHT RECORDER RECOVERED FROM BLACK SEA

RIA Novosti, Moscow
22 May 06

Sochi, 22 May: One of the flight recorders from the Armenian A-320
airliner which crashed near Sochi [on 3 May] has been raised from
the bed of the Black Sea, RIA-Novosti news agency has learned from a
spokesman for the Yuzhmorgeologiya scientific centre, whose experts
are involved in the search.

“One of the flight recorders from the crashed A-320 airliner has been
located and raised. Work to locate the second “black box” continues,”
the agency’s source said.

He said the “black box” was found last night. “Work then started on
analysing the information and raising it,” the spokesman said.

At present the recovered flight recorder is still on board ship,
the source said.

It was earlier reported that the “black boxes” were at a depth of
some 500 m.

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