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    ONE OF TWO RECORDERS
    by Igor Glanin

    Vremya Novostey
    RusData Dialine - Russian Press Digest
    May 23, 2006 Tuesday

    Armenian Airbus's in-flight recorder recovered from the Black Sea

    Searchers on Monday recovered the cockpit voice recorder from an
    Armenian passenger jet that crashed in the Black Sea nearly three
    weeks ago, killing all 113 people aboard, Transportation Minister
    Igor Levitin said.

    Workers using a remote-controlled diving apparatus with a robotic arm
    plucked the recorder from the sea floor nearly 500 meters beneath the
    surface after removing a layer of silt up to half a meter thick that
    had covered the black box and hidden it from searchers for days.

    Levitin said at a news conference that authorities hope to soon
    recover the flight data recorder, which they believe is under silt
    just three to five meters away.

    Officials hope the recorders will help determine the cause of the
    May 3 crash of the Armavia Airbus A-320, which plunged into the sea
    in heavy rain and poor visibility as it approached the airport on a
    flight from the Armenian capital, Yerevan, to Sochi.

    "I think that what happened would be revealed," said Tatyana Anodina,
    head of the Interstate Aviation Committee, the civil agency that
    links Russia with 11 other former Soviet republics.

    Anodina said the cockpit voice recorder was damaged by the crash and
    may have suffered from the harsh conditions beneath the silt, but
    expressed confidence that it would yield information "very important
    to investigators" -- a recording of the voices and other sounds in
    the cockpit in the final minutes of the doomed flight.
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