Pilots Of A-320 Spoke Armenian Before Crash

PILOTS OF A-320 SPOKE ARMENIAN BEFORE CRASH

PanARMENIAN.Net
31.05.2006 16:40 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Specialists from Armenia will take part in decoding
of speech recorder of crashed A-320 liner, as pilots spoke Armenian
before the crash, Russian Minister of Transport Igor Levitin said.

Decoding and analysis of flight recorders of A-320 started at the
Inter-State Aviation Committee (ISAC) in Moscow on Monday. According
to Chair of ISAC Technical Commission for investigation of A-320 crash
Leonid Kashirsky, records of the recorders are in a satisfactory state.

On the night of May 3 a Yerevan-Sochi flight of Armavia national
carrier crashed in the Black Sea 6 km away from Adler airport killing
all of 113 people aboard, including 6 children and 8 crewmembers. Among
them were 26 Russian citizens, one Ukrainian and one Georgian citizen,
while the rest of the passengers were Armenian citizens.