Committee: Cause of Armenian jet crash will be known in July

Committee: Cause of Armenian jet crash will be known in July

Interfax, Russia
July 12 2006

YEREVAN. July 12 (Interfax) – The Interstate Aviation Committee of
the Commonwealth of Independent States said on Wednesday it "possesses
all necessary information" in order to determine the cause of the May
3 crash of an Armenian airliner in Sochi, Russia, and it promised to
publish its findings this month.

"Today I can for the first time announce officially and with
confidence that the Interstate Aviation Committee has all the necessary
information in order to establish absolutely clearly and objectively
the causes of the crash of the [Airbus] A-320 liner over Sochi on
May 3 and finish work on the final report with the participation
of Russian, Armenian, and French specialists," Committee Chairwoman
Tatyana Anodina told reporters in Yerevan.

Anodina said the findings would be published this month and that
the analysis of flight records would be finished before the end of
this week.