CRASHED ARMENIAN AIRBUS BLACK BOX RECORDER RECOVERED
Agence France Presse — English
May 22, 2006 Monday 2:04 PM GMT
The black box voice recorder from an Armenian Airbus passenger plane
that crashed in the Black Sea earlier this month has been raised from
the sea bed, an official at the transport ministry said Monday.
“We found the black box yesterday during the night,” a source at the
ministry, who asked not to be named, told AFP.
All 113 passengers and crew died when the Armavia airlines Airbus A320,
which had taken off from Yerevan, crashed May 3 during its approach
to Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi. Eighty-five of the victims
were Armenians, many of them on family visits.
The transport ministry source said the recovered black box was “the
one with voice recordings and was lying 25 to 50 centimetres (10 to
20 inches) under the mud. This evening we should find the flight data
recorder, which should lie about five metres away.”
A submersible vessel has been used to search for the flight recorders,
which were reported to be lying at a depth of some 500 metres (1,600
feet) below the surface.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
