May 31, 2006 - 17:40 AMT
Pilots of A-320 Spoke Armenian before Crash
Specialists from Armenia will take part in decoding of speech recorder of crashed A-320 liner, as pilots spoke Armenian before the crash, Russian Minister of Transport Igor Levitin said. Decoding and analysis of flight recorders of A-320 started at the Inter-State Aviation Committee (ISAC) in Moscow on Monday. According to Chair of ISAC Technical Commission for investigation of A-320 crash Leonid Kashirsky, records of the recorders are in a satisfactory state.

On the night of May 3 a Yerevan-Sochi flight of Armavia national carrier crashed in the Black Sea 6 km away from Adler airport killing all of 113 people aboard, including 6 children and 8 crewmembers. Among them were 26 Russian citizens, one Ukrainian and one Georgian citizen, while the rest of the passengers were Armenian citizens.