May 24, 2006 - 15:09 AMT
Flight Recorders Decoding to Take 15 Days
It will take the International Aviation Committee some 15 days to decode two flight recorders of A-320 jet that crashed near Sochi May 3, Russia's Intergovernmental Aviation Committee head Rudolf Teymurazov said. Today the governmental committee will fix the terms for the delivery of the record boxes to the International Aviation Committee. The expert also informed that the devices will be examined by the IAC with the participation of foreign specialists who were engaged in the search works, reported RIA Novosti.

According to the international rules, specialists of the French Intelligence and Analysis Bureau take part in the investigation of aviation incidents on behalf of France, the producer of the aircraft.

To remind, 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 passengers, including 6 children and 8 crewmembers. Among them were 26 Russian citizens, one Ukrainian and one Georgian citizen, while the rest were Armenian citizens.