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RUSSIA ASKS FOR FOREIGN HELP TO RAISE CRASHED PLANE'S "BLACK BOXES" FROM SEA
Channel One TV, Moscow
4 May 06
[Presenter] Russia will be seeking foreign help to raise the fragments
of the crashed [Armenian] airliner from the sea, said the chairman
of the investigation commission, Russian Transport Minister Igor
Levitin. It has been found out that big fragments of the plane that
may contain the "black boxes" are lying on the seabed at the depth of
680 m. Russia has no equipment capable of working at such depth. Our
correspondent Kirill Polynin joins us live from Sochi.
What's new Kirill?
[Correspondent] The main news is that the flight recorders, the
so-called "black boxes" have been detected. They are 680 m deep
in the sea at the place of the disaster. This is much deeper than
expected. Experts believed that the "black boxes" were lying at the
depth of no more than 400 m.
A meeting at the operational headquarters ended about an hour ago.
The head of the governmental commission, Russian Transport Minister
Igor Levitin, said that Russia did not possess the necessary equipment
to lift the "black boxes" from the seabed and would have to ask for
international help.
[Levitin] The Ministry for Emergencies is asking the navy for help.
We shall also appeal to other countries which have the experience
of raising objects from this depth. We do not have the necessary
equipment here in the Black Sea.
[Correspondent] Right after the French experts returned from the sea,
it became clear that the recorders' whereabouts would be established
quite soon. The experts from Airbus, which produced the aircraft that
crashed off the Adler airport [on 3 May], went to sea early in the
morning together with the officers of the Russian Emergencies Ministry
and began to explore the seabed using the equipment they brought with
them from France. They detected the "black boxes" very quickly.
[Passage omitted: 53 dead bodies have been recovered from the sea
and 28 of them have been identified]
Channel One TV, Moscow
4 May 06
[Presenter] Russia will be seeking foreign help to raise the fragments
of the crashed [Armenian] airliner from the sea, said the chairman
of the investigation commission, Russian Transport Minister Igor
Levitin. It has been found out that big fragments of the plane that
may contain the "black boxes" are lying on the seabed at the depth of
680 m. Russia has no equipment capable of working at such depth. Our
correspondent Kirill Polynin joins us live from Sochi.
What's new Kirill?
[Correspondent] The main news is that the flight recorders, the
so-called "black boxes" have been detected. They are 680 m deep
in the sea at the place of the disaster. This is much deeper than
expected. Experts believed that the "black boxes" were lying at the
depth of no more than 400 m.
A meeting at the operational headquarters ended about an hour ago.
The head of the governmental commission, Russian Transport Minister
Igor Levitin, said that Russia did not possess the necessary equipment
to lift the "black boxes" from the seabed and would have to ask for
international help.
[Levitin] The Ministry for Emergencies is asking the navy for help.
We shall also appeal to other countries which have the experience
of raising objects from this depth. We do not have the necessary
equipment here in the Black Sea.
[Correspondent] Right after the French experts returned from the sea,
it became clear that the recorders' whereabouts would be established
quite soon. The experts from Airbus, which produced the aircraft that
crashed off the Adler airport [on 3 May], went to sea early in the
morning together with the officers of the Russian Emergencies Ministry
and began to explore the seabed using the equipment they brought with
them from France. They detected the "black boxes" very quickly.
[Passage omitted: 53 dead bodies have been recovered from the sea
and 28 of them have been identified]