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    AEROBUS CONSORTIUM WILL HELP INVESTIGATE SOCHI AIR ACCIDENT

    ITAR-TASS, Russia
    May 3 2006

    PARIS, May 3 (Itar-Tass) - Experts of the Bureau for the Investigations
    of Air Accidents of the Chief Civil Aviation Board of France will
    render all the necessary assistance to Russia and Armenia in their
    effort to investigate the reasons of the tragic crash of an A-320
    airliner near Sochi, Anne Galabert, an official of the Consortium
    Press Service informed Itar-Tass on Wednesday from the company's HQ
    in Toulouse. Our company will dispatch to the disaster spot a 6-man
    team of experts to render all the necessary technical assistance,
    she stated.

    "The Airbus Consortium never investigates the reasons and circumstances
    of air accidents. This is within the competence of the Bureau for the
    Investigation of Air Accidents, which was set up for these purposes,"
    Galabert explained. "We are always ready to give a helping hand and
    to render technical assistance, to meet the Armenian and Russian
    authorities halfway, and to answer all the questions they wish
    to know. This is precisely why a team of our experts is going to
    Sochi," she added. The team of specialists of the Aerobus Consortium,
    where the fateful A-320 liner was built, will be included in the
    international commission that is to carry out the inquest. "Aerobus
    is ready to provide information, linked with the disaster," Press
    Service officials noted. "However, the company does not deem it right
    to discuss the reasons of the accident, since it is the duty of the
    aviation authorities concerned to investigate the case," they added.

    The two-engine narrow-fuselage A-320 liner is designed to carry 150
    passengers in the typical two-class variation. This type of airbuses,
    which were launched into service in 1988, have won the reputation
    of comfortable and dependable airliners. Today, they number 2,750 on
    the international airlines and are being used by 175 air companies.

    The airliner, which crashed near Sochi, had effected 14,400 flights
    since 1995 with a total duration of more than 28,200 flight hours.
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