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    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    June 2, 2006 Friday 04:42 PM EST

    A-320 flight recorders handed over to forensics



    Investigators from the Prosecutor General's Office have transferred
    to experts the flight recorders of a A-320 jet of Armenian Airlines,
    which crashed near Sochi on May 3.

    ``Forensic experts and specialists from the Interstate Aviation
    Committee are studying the flight recorders,'' a source at the
    Prosecutor General's Office said on Friday. ``The DNA tests of bodily
    fragments are underway.''

    Transport Minister Igor Levitin said earlier that it would take 1.5-2
    months to decipher information form the flight recorders. The
    commission will have to analyze about 300 parameters. Armenian
    experts will take part in the investigation, as the crew spoke
    Armenian.

    The crash killed 113 people, and over 100 aggrieved parties have been
    named in the case. The investigation is being done in close
    cooperation with Armenians.
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