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    RUSSIA ASKS FOR FOREIGN HELP TO RAISE CRASHED PLANE'S "BLACK BOXES" FROM SEA

    Channel One TV, Moscow
    4 May 06

    [Presenter] Russia will be seeking foreign help to raise the fragments
    of the crashed [Armenian] airliner from the sea, said the chairman
    of the investigation commission, Russian Transport Minister Igor
    Levitin. It has been found out that big fragments of the plane that
    may contain the "black boxes" are lying on the seabed at the depth of
    680 m. Russia has no equipment capable of working at such depth. Our
    correspondent Kirill Polynin joins us live from Sochi.

    What's new Kirill?

    [Correspondent] The main news is that the flight recorders, the
    so-called "black boxes" have been detected. They are 680 m deep
    in the sea at the place of the disaster. This is much deeper than
    expected. Experts believed that the "black boxes" were lying at the
    depth of no more than 400 m.

    A meeting at the operational headquarters ended about an hour ago.

    The head of the governmental commission, Russian Transport Minister
    Igor Levitin, said that Russia did not possess the necessary equipment
    to lift the "black boxes" from the seabed and would have to ask for
    international help.

    [Levitin] The Ministry for Emergencies is asking the navy for help.

    We shall also appeal to other countries which have the experience
    of raising objects from this depth. We do not have the necessary
    equipment here in the Black Sea.

    [Correspondent] Right after the French experts returned from the sea,
    it became clear that the recorders' whereabouts would be established
    quite soon. The experts from Airbus, which produced the aircraft that
    crashed off the Adler airport [on 3 May], went to sea early in the
    morning together with the officers of the Russian Emergencies Ministry
    and began to explore the seabed using the equipment they brought with
    them from France. They detected the "black boxes" very quickly.

    [Passage omitted: 53 dead bodies have been recovered from the sea
    and 28 of them have been identified]
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