YEREVAN, MAY 8, NOYAN TAPAN. As of May 8, in spite of bad
weather conditions, searches are going on in the place of
accident of A-320 plane. The location of black boxes was
clarified the previous day. According to the specialists, they
are in a smaller, 400-450 meters, depth than it was supposed.
At present the specialists are working in the direction of
lifting them from the bottom of the sea. As the Russian side
affirms, the searches will continue as long as there is hope to
find something connected with the plane. Specialists from RF,
Ukraine, France also take part in the searches. Cyprus, Italy
and Great Britain have also offered their assistance.
The last group of the relatives of the victims will return
to Armenia on May 8. According to the official data, no corpses
of those who died in the accident have been found in the recent
days. At present, 56 corpses out of those of 113 victims have
been found and only 48 of them have been indentified by now. 36
of them have been moved to Armenia. At the request of the
relatives, 48 jugs with the sea sand and water from the
territory of the accident were also moved to Armenia. They will
be committed to the earth instead of the non-found corpses.