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    NAVIGATOR SHIP WITH ROBOT BEGINS A-320 PLANE BLACK BOXES LIFTING

    ITAR-TASS, Russia
    May 16 2006

    KRASNODAR, May 16 (Itar-Tass) - The Navigator special ship with a
    robot on board put out to the Black Sea early on Tuesday in order to
    launch the operation to lift from the seabed the flight data recorders
    of the crashed A-320 airliner of Armenia's Armavia company.

    The vessel was in the designated area at 06:20, Moscow time and the
    crew began the operation, Itar-Tass was told by telephone from the
    Navigator.

    The robot was installed on the ship on Monday. It was brought to
    Sochi by the Kapitan Beklemishev scientific-research ship from
    Novorossiisk. Last week specialists tested the robot in the area of
    the Tonky cape just opposite Gelendzhik. According to the head of the
    special ship's crew, specialist of the Yuzhmorgeologiya federal state
    institution Igor Lagoida, the apparatus was designed for lifting
    geological specimens form the seabed and examining underwater oil
    and natural gas pipelines. It is for the first time to fulfil the
    task of lifting a plane's black boxes.

    The robot consists of three parts, the largest is a container with
    control equipment. The next segment with photo and television equipment
    will go to the bottom of the sea and examine it. The third device is
    a hydraulic elevating manipulator working in all directions. It will
    lift on board containers and possibly pieces of the wrecked plane if
    they have a weight less than 12 kilogrammes.

    According to captain of the Navigator Ivan Bezborodov, "The vessel has
    a system of dynamic positioning that allows it to stay in a circle 10
    metres in radius, which will make it possible for the robotic device
    to work normally in deep sea.

    The operation is expected to take three days.

    Accoridng to available information, the plane's flight data recorders
    are at a depth of 496 metres, the distance between the recorders is
    some five metres.

    The airbus A-320 of the Armavia company fell into the Black Sea on
    the night of May 3 during landing approach at the Sochi airport. The
    catastrophe claimed the lives of 113 people.
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