May 16, 2006 - 14:22 AMT
M. Baghdasarov Calls Not to Believe to Various Hearsay over A-320 Crash
The flight recorders may be lifted already today and most likely French specialists will lift them, Armavia air company head Mikhail Baghdasarov said in Yerevan. In his words, in a few days it will be possible to know how the tragedy actually happened. He also said that the Airbus Investigation Bureau is holding all investigation. He called not to believe to various hearsay and versions. «We should base ourselves on facts and they are: there was enough kerosene, the plane was trig, the crew was trained. All the rest will be cleared out, when flight recorders are lifted,» he said. Baghdasarov added there were no arms and especially fight aboard. «If it were the case, it could be heard from the land,» he said.

The air company head underscored that pilot Grigoryan was trained and retrained in Holland and he was a qualified pilot. «As of bad weather, it was not so bad that A-320 could not land. Old soviet airplanes could not do it, but airbuses land in any weather,» Baghdasarov remarked.

As of further plans of the company, May 18 a new A-319, bought in Canada, is arriving in Yerevan. «We are going to buy another airbus and a small plane with 50-60 seats. The company buys only those plane, which are produced after 2000. The new A-319 is assembled in 2004,» the air company head said.