The location of the record boxes of the crashed A-320 jet has been already fixed. According to official sources, they lie at a depth of 496 meters at a distance of some 5 meters from each other,” Co-chair of the Russian-Armenian intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation, Secretary of the Security Council at the RA President, Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan told reporters today.
In his words, all the measures essential for the withdrawal of the record boxes are being taken, reported IA Regnum. It should be noted that the withdrawal operation will start May 16. The robot that will take the boxes out of the water will be placed on a special vessel and then tested in the defined area in a bay. After this the towboat will head for Sochi to the crash site.
To remind, early May 3 Armavia-owned plane crashed into the Black Sea killing all of 113 people aboard including 6 children and 8 crewmembers. The jet was conveying 26 Russian citizens, one Ukrainian citizen and one Georgian citizen; the others were citizens of Armenia.
