May 6, 2006 - 16:07 AMT
Stall Main Version of A-320 Airbus Crash
Stall in the main version of crash of A-320 Airbus of Armavia air company, former Chair of General Department of Civil Aviation of Armenia, Chair of the National Aviation Union, USSR honored pilot Dmitry Atbashyan told journalists in Yerevan. «In my opinion, based on preliminary data, the first version of the crash is stall. The plane started falling down due to stall, which resulted in a spin and crash,» he remarked.

Precipitation, which made A-320 wet, are a second version of the catastrophe cause. «The resistance of a wet plane increases several times, thus the engine traction might have been insufficient,» he said.

In Atbashyan's words, another version may be the storm near Sochi airport. «The airbus might crash also resulting from a thunderbolt,» he emphasized, reports Novosti Armenia.