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    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    May 12, 2006 Friday 11:30 AM EST

    Krasnodar governor hopes for retrieval of A-320 flight recorders

    KISLOVODSK


    Krasnodar Governor Alexander Tkachyov hopes that flight recorders of
    the A-320 jet of the Armenian airline Armavia, which crashed near
    Sochi on May 3 and killed 113 people onboard, will be eventually
    retrieved from the sea.

    ``Certainly, it is problematic to lift [the flight recorders] from
    the depth of 600 meters, but we hope that will be done,'' he said in
    reply to an Itar-Tass question.

    The Navigator vessel went to the flight recorders' search zone for
    telemetric analysis on Friday, a source at the Sochi seaport told
    Itar-Tass.

    ``The visibility is normal on the A-320 crash scene, and we hope to
    receive a telemetric picture of the seabed, where the flight
    recorders are situated,'' head of the Transport Ministry's Federal
    Sea and River Transport Agency Alexander Davydenko told Itar-Tass.

    According to the operation headquarters, the flight recorders are
    located at the distance of five meters from one another, and the
    depth of 496 meters. ``We are making the research to prevent any
    mistakes in the choice of a deep-water apparatus that can raise the
    two flight recorders from the seabed,'' a source at the operation
    headquarters said.
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