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    SECOND FLIGHT RECORDER RECOVERED FROM PLANE CRASH THAT KILLED 113

    Pravda, Russia
    May 24 2006

    The flight data recorder was lifted by a diving apparatus from a depth
    of about 1,640 feet (500 meters) after it was separated from a thick
    layer of silt, Transport Ministry spokeswoman Svetlana Kryshtanovskaya
    said, according to the RIA-Novosti news agency.

    The so-called "black box" was discovered within 16 meters (50 feet)
    from the spot where workers found the plane's cockpit voice recorder
    Monday.

    Russian TV channels showed footage of a yellow, remote-controlled
    apparatus lifting the red recorder from the sea surface, the AP
    reports.

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

    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 the
    deciphering of the black boxes, a process that could also take place
    in Paris with the involvement of Airbus, Armenia's civil aviation
    authority spokesman Gayane Davtian said.

    Meanwhile, the victims' relatives will receive compensation of
    US$20,000 (~@15,550) each, the insurance company liable for the
    payouts said Wednesday.
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