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    ARMENIAN PROSECUTORS DEPART FOR SOCHI TO IDENTIFY THE CAUSE OF PLANE CRASH

    Armenpress
    May 11 2006

    YEREVAN, MAY 11, ARMENPRESS: A group of Armenian prosecutors have left
    today for Russian resort city Sochi to join Russian counterparts in
    the ongoing criminal investigation into the May 3 crash of an Armenian
    passenger jet that killed all 113 people aboard. The Armenian team
    is led by chief investigator Hakob Gharakhanian.

    The office of Armenian chief prosecutor said in line with an agreement
    with Russian counterparts Armenian prosecutors will interrogate
    some people in Sochi and will also conduct other investigation
    actions. Armenian investigators may stay in Sochi for at least two
    weeks. Armenian and Russian prosecutors opened separate criminal cases
    immediately after the Airbus A320 of the Armavia airline plunged into
    the Black Sea.

    Meantime a Russian transportation official was quoted by RIA news
    agency as saying that recovery teams have about three weeks to locate
    and retrieve the flight data recorders of the Armenian airliner.

    "We have a time limit, about 30 days from the moment of the crash,"
    said Alexander Davydenko, who is coordinating the operation to locate
    the black boxes.

    He added that batteries of the black boxes, which are thought to be
    at the depth of 400-450 meters (1,300- 1,470 feet), would run down
    in 30 days.

    Earlier wreckage had been reported at 680 meters (2,230ft).

    Vladimir Yerygin, who oversees technological support for the operation
    , said earlier that specialists from Toulouse-based Airbus were
    planning to use advanced hydroacoustic equipment to find the precise
    location of the black boxes and later recover them using a deep-sea
    vehicle.

    He said the main group of French experts, which left the port of Sochi
    Wednesday morning, would set up a data-processing center on board one
    ship, and another ship with the Kalmar deep-sea craft would continue
    scanning the seabed for parts of the A-320.
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