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    EMBASSY: UK READY TO HELP GET PLANE WRECKAGE FROM SEAFLOOR

    Interfax, Russia
    May 4 2006

    MOSCOW. May 4 (Interfax) - Britain is ready to help Russia raise the
    remains of an airliner that crashed on Wednesday, killing all 113
    people on board, but has not yet received any request from Russia
    to that effect, a spokesman for the British Embassy in Moscow told
    Interfax on Thursday.

    Earlier on Thursday, Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin announced
    that Russia would ask other countries to help retrieve what has
    remained of the Airbus A-320, which belonged to the Armenian airline
    Armavia and fell into the Black Sea as it was getting ready to land
    at Adler airport in Russia after a flight from Yerevan.

    "We will ask other countries, which have experience at a depth of
    680 meters," Levitin told reporters in Sochi.

    In August 2005, a six-member British team, using a Scorpio submersible,
    rescued the crew of a Russian mini-submarine that had got entangled
    in a fishing net at a depth of 190 meters off the coast of the Russian
    peninsula of Kamchatka. The United States and Japan were also involved
    in the operation.
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