Airbus Experts Hopeful Of Recovering Plane Wreck From Black Sea

AIRBUS EXPERTS HOPEFUL OF RECOVERING PLANE WRECK FROM BLACK SEA
RIA Novosti, Russia
May 4 2006
MOSCOW, May 4 (RIA Novosti) – Airbus specialists plan to recover the
flight recorders and all parts of an Airbus plane that crashed in the
Black Sea Wednesday killing 113 people, the Russian transportation
minister said Thursday.
An Airbus A-320 belonging to Armenia’s Armavia Airlines flying from
the country’s capital, Yerevan, crashed about six kilometers from
the Russian coast en route to an airport in Adler, which services
the resort of Sochi. All 113 passengers and crew were killed.
Igor Levitin, speaking in an interview with government daily
Rossiyskaya Gazeta to be published Friday, said: “They do not intend
to limit their activity to searching for black boxes, but also to
recover all parts of the plane by themselves, as it is important
for the manufacturer to establish whether the crash was linked with
plane’s technical state.”
The European company equips its A-320 model with special radio beacons
emitting signals at a certain frequency and at set intervals.
Levitin said a provisional analysis of the crew’s communications with
ground control suggested that bad weather was the most likely cause of
the crash, adding that further analysis by Russian technical experts
should provide a clearer picture of events.
Igor Levitin said earlier that parts of the plane had been found at a
depth of 680 meters (2,230 feet). An emergencies ministry official said
Airbus specialists working at the site had detected a radio signal,
possibly from the plane’s flight recorders. Two ministry teams are
also working at the site, searching for signals.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress