Dark, very dark tragedy…

12/05/2006 Armine AVETYAN

Even Russia’s and Armenia’s approaches to finding the black boxes are suspicious. This fact makes people and specialists assume that something fishy is going on, or there is some secret behind this. This means that they have either given little information about this or simply hidden the truth. Only guilty people do this. In this case particularly both the Armenian and Russian parties failed to provide full and correct information.

From the very beginning they said that the reason was poor weather conditions. On the basis of this information provided by Russia, the RA defense minister Serge Sargsyan said the following, “We know two things for sure, the weather was bad and our plane was in good conditions”. As for Russian specialists, they didn’t agree with this. Well experienced Armenian pilots say that it is possible to land in such conditions. Besides that specialists don’t understand how people could see the plane falling in 60 degrees parallel to the water in 5-6 kilometers distance if the weather was bad.

From the start Russia announced that the plane had fallen down so far from the coast that it was hardly possible to find the remains of the plane and the black boxes. Armenians said the same thing. There was a 10% chance of finding the black boxes. With this information, the two parties were trying to explain to people that it was impossible to find the real reason of the tragedy. It was clear that the two parties wanted to blame the crew for this tragedy.

As soon as the representatives of the Airbus company arrived in Sochi and announced where the black boxes were located, everything changed unexpectedly. After this, both Russian president V. Putin and Armenian defense minister Serge Sargsyan said that they would do their best to find the boxes. It is clear that the Airbus company is seriously interested in finding the black boxes. They have to prove that they have good production and the reason was not their plane. They must save the reputation of their company and as a result lose their “good will” in the whole world, which will bring to a loss of huge sums. In order to not fall in such a bad situation, the Airbus company must find the boxes and prove that the reason was not their production. According to specialists black boxes contain detailed information about the performance of the plane during the last thirty minutes, even the changes of direction and other detailed information. This means that the black boxes are the main key to the secret of this tragedy.

It is clear that there are already silent conflicts between the Russian, Armenian and French groups. We may assume that the Russian and Armenian parties will try to hide everything, and the French party will try to discover all details. The fact that Russians say that they don’t have enough facilities to take the black boxes out of water is not logical, because they could take the “Kursk” diver out of the ocean. If the Russian party didn’t play a role in all this they would publish the conversation of the air navigation officers and pilots. On the other hand they could give the Russian air navigation officer an opportunity to express his opinion. This air navigation officer has been missing for more than three days and no one speaks anything about him. It is said that this officer was drunk, sworn at the pilot and failed to do his work in a duly manner and that is why they don’t give the conversation recording. They had to talk in English, but in the Georgian version of the conversation they speak Russian. The Russians keep saying that the air navigation officers only have a right to give information and only the pilots can handle the rest. But specialists say that when landing, pilots must do what air navigation officers say. Now it is clear that the reason of the tragedy was the human factor, it will be clear soon whether this factor was navigation officers, pilots, oil or terror. No matter what, it’s evident that this is terror, which was denied by both Armenia and Russia.