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  • Crew responsible for Armenian A320 crash near Sochi - minister (Part

    Crew responsible for Armenian A320 crash near Sochi - minister (Part 2)

    Interfax News Agency
    Russia & CIS Military Newswire
    July 26, 2006 Wednesday 2:10 PM MSK

    MOSCOW July 26

    The crash of an Airbus A320 passenger jet belonging to the Armavia
    airline near Sochi on May 3 happened due to the fault of the crew,
    Transportation Minister and head of an ad hoc government commission
    investigating the crash Igor Levitin said at a press conference in
    Moscow on Wednesday.

    "The human factor played its role in difficult weather conditions,"
    Levitin said.

    Tatyana Anodina, the head of the Interstate Aviation Committee, a CIS
    organization investigating air incidents, told journalists that "the
    plane was landing on autopilot and strictly following the glide slope
    in a landing configuration, when it received a report from air traffic
    control that the cloud base was lowering. The plane stopped descending
    at a speed of around 340 meters, and started a right climbing turn.

    While performing this turn, the captain switched the autopilot off
    and made the plane to descend."

    "These actions by the captain were not properly controlled by the
    second pilot, and the crew's following actions were uncoordinated
    and inadequate to roll the plane out," Anodina said.

    As for suggestions that the crash could have been caused by a
    mechanical fault, the commission's conclusion reads, "There were no
    malfunctions in the aircraft's engines and systems, and the plane
    normally responded to both the autopilot's commands and the crew's
    actions. There was enough fuel on board to safely complete the flight."

    The A320 crash near Sochi at 2:13 a.m. Moscow time on May 3 (2213
    GMT on May 2) killed 105 passengers and eight crewmembers.
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