Experts Consider Finding A-320 Flight Recorder Good Fortune
The flight recorder of A-320 airbus of Armavia air company that was lifted from the sea bottom yesterday is not sent to the Inter-State Aviation Committee (ISAC) for decoding yet. "The speech recorder of A-320 is in Sochi and is not provided to us yet," reported head of the ISAC Center for Air Transport Investigations Rudolf Teymurazov. He also noted, "It is good fortune to find even one flight recorder among the fragments." Earlier the experts doubted the flight recorders could be found. "I am skeptical over the opportunity to find anything at the Black Sea bottom farther than a kilometer away from the coastline," Rudolf Teymurazov said a day after the catastrophe.
"There are real mountains under the water and their tops are covered with silt," he added. In the expert's words, in case a plane falls into the sea, maximum 3% of its fragments are found, reports RIA Novosti.
On the night of May 3 a Yerevan-Sochi flight of Armavia airlines crashed in the Black Sea 6 km away from Adler airport killing all of 113 passengers, including 6 children and 8 members of the crew. Among them were 26 Russian citizens, one Ukrainian and one Georgian citizen, while the rest were Armenian citizens.
"There are real mountains under the water and their tops are covered with silt," he added. In the expert's words, in case a plane falls into the sea, maximum 3% of its fragments are found, reports RIA Novosti.
On the night of May 3 a Yerevan-Sochi flight of Armavia airlines crashed in the Black Sea 6 km away from Adler airport killing all of 113 passengers, including 6 children and 8 members of the crew. Among them were 26 Russian citizens, one Ukrainian and one Georgian citizen, while the rest were Armenian citizens.
