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    2ND RECORDER RECOVERED FROM ARMENIAN PLANE

    Niagara Gazette, NY
    May 24 2006

    MOSCOW

    Searchers on Wednesday recovered the second flight recorder from an
    Armenian airliner that crashed into the Black Sea three weeks ago,
    killing all 113 people aboard, local media reported.

    The flight data recorder was lifted by a diving apparatus from a
    depth of about 1,640 feet after it was separated from a thick layer
    of silt, said Transport Ministry spokeswoman Svetlana Kryshtanovskaya,
    according to the RIA-Novosti news agency.

    The data recorder was discovered within 50 feet from where workers
    on Monday found the plane's cockpit voice recorder.

    Russian television channels showed a yellow, remote-controlled
    apparatus lifting the red recorder from the sea surface.

    Investigators hope the two recorders will help answer why the Armavia
    Airbus A-320 plane plunged into the sea May 3 in heavy rain and poor
    visibility. The flight had been en route to the southern Russian sea
    resort Sochi from the Armenian capital, Yerevan.

    Prosecutors almost immediately dismissed the possibility that
    terrorists had brought the plane down, and officials point to rough
    weather or pilot error as the likely cause. Armavia officials have
    suggested, however, that air traffic controllers were at least partly
    to blame.

    Top Armenian aviation officials will travel to Moscow Thursday for
    deciphering the recorders, a process that could also take place in
    Paris with the involvement of Airbus, said Gayane Davtian, a spokesman
    for Armenia's civil aviation authority.

    Meanwhile, the victims' relatives are to receive compensation of
    $20,000 each, the insurance company liable for the payments said
    Wednesday.

    "The insurance payments will not depend in any way on the cause of
    the catastrophe," said Artak Antonian, head of the Grand insurance
    company.
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