The second flight recorder of the A320 was retrieved yesterday morning.
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A320 Black Boxes Sent to Moscow
The second black box of the A320 jet that crashed on May 2 outside Sochi was retrieved in the Black Sea yesterday. Experts of the Interstate Aviation Committee are to start deciphering the data of the recorders soon. However, the head of the committee, Tatyana Anodina doubted that the data in the black boxes were kept intact.
Igor Levitin, Russian transportation minister and head of the committee investigating the crash, Tatyana Anodina, head of the Interstate Aviation Committee, and Armenian Ambassador to Russian Armen Sumbatian went to Sochi yesterday to meet members of the search expedition. The operation to retrieve the two flight recorders of the A320 lasted 20 days but finished with a success, as Igor Levitin said. The audio recorder was found and retrieved on Monday. The parameter recorder was located on Tuesday night and lifted from the Black Sea on early Wednesday morning. The operation was complicated as the black boxes were covered with a thick layer of sediments and experts first doubted that they would manage to locate and hoist the recorders.
Chairperson of the Interstate Aviation Committee Tatyana Anodina told the press that the audio recorder will be deciphered in Moscow, contrary to earlier reports that the black boxes will be sent to Airbus’ specialists in France. Ms. Anodina remarked that there are chances that the data in the boxes was lost. “The parameter recorder is intact, but the audio recorder may be in a bad state. The magnetic film was damaged by the aggressive sea medium and mechanical effects,” she said.
Experts hope to discover the cause of the crash with the help of the data in the recorder. A participant of the operation supposed that the plane probably crashed following the loss of aerodynamic qualities.
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All the Article in Russian as of May 25, 2006
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