May 19, 2006 - 21:32 AMT
A-320 Flight Recorders May Not Be Found
«It is possible that flight recorders of A-320 airplane of the Armenian airlines, which crashed in the Black Sea, may not be found,» Russian Minister of Transport Igor Levitin said. In his words, in crashes like this is possible that flight recorders may not be found. Levitin specified that the location of radio beacons, which could be torn off from flight recorders of the airline resulting from a strong blow, is known now.

The Russian Minister of Transport remarked that at present deep-water equipment is searching a square of 20 by 20 meters, from where signals come. «Rescuers attentively study the fragments of the plane that they find,» the Minister specified, reports RIA Novosti.

On the night of May 3 when coming in the land at Adler airport under hard weather conditions A-320 airbus of Armavia air company Yerevan-Sochi flight, crashed 6 km away from the coastline. All 105 passengers and 8 members of the crew aboard died.