Armenian Authorities Will Keep Secret A-320 Crash Causes Until Official Decision
15.06.2006 13:15 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian authorities have been advised of the causes of the crash of the Armenian plane but they are not empowered to make the information public yet, RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan told reporters yesterday. In his words, the authorities will keep the information secret until the official decision of experts in announced.
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To remind, On May 3 night Airbus-320 owned by Armavia national carrier crashed in the Black Sea 6 km away from Adler airport killing all 113 people aboard, including 6 children and 8 crewmembers. Among them were 26 Russian citizens, one Ukrainian and one Georgian citizen, while the rest were Armenian citizens.
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Meanwhile, an anonymous source in the investigating committee said that errors by the crew have become obvious as the reason for the A-320 jet crash in the Black Sea. The decoding of the flight recorders showed that the pilots “had lost spatial orientation” in bad weather conditions. It was also ascertained that the pilots had overbanked when making the second turn by order of the flying control officer. These factors, specialists say, led to the catastrophe.