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  • Russia sets up tech. HQ to find plane's black boxes in Black Sea

    RIA Novosti, Russia
    May 8 2006

    Russia sets up tech. HQ to find plane's black boxes in Black Sea
    16:02 | 08/ 05/ 2006


    MOSCOW, May 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's transportation minister has
    ordered that emergency headquarters be set up to organize technical
    assistance in an international effort to retrieve the flight
    recorders of an Armenian plane that crashed off Russia's Black Sea
    coast last week, the transportation ministry said Monday.

    The ministry said that Igor Levitin had appointed Alexander
    Davydenko, head of the Federal Sea and River Transportation Agency
    (Rosmorrechflot) to oversee the headquarters, which will include
    Russian rescuers, experts from the Interstate Aviation Committee, and
    French specialists.

    The Airbus A-320 airliner crashed into the sea on Wednesday, killing
    all 113 people on board.

    Three Russian ships are now working at site of the crash - the Zaliv,
    the Kapitan Beklemishev, and the Cheliken. The Zaliv hosts a new
    Kalmar deep-sea search vehicle designed to locate parts of the
    wreckage and flight recorders, which are seen as the key to
    explaining the cause of the tragedy.

    French specialists with equipment needed to search for the flight
    recorders are expected to arrive in Sochi on Tuesday.
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