Russia’s Ambassador to Armenia Armen Smbatyan took part in the decryption of the black boxes of the A-320 plane that crashed in the Black Sea and no matter how much he tried not to give any information to journalists, he finally said that the reason for the crash was the “human factor”. Two days later, the “Moskovski Comsomolets” (MC) also claimed that the reason for the crash was the “human factor”, as it gave information about the decryption of the autographic recordings in the black boxes from an anonymous source. MC described this with the situation in the plane-the crew “couldn’t picture the land and the sky”. According to the anonymous source, there are two reasons why the crew couldn’t differentiate between land and sky: either it wasn’t aware, or the weather conditions. The decryption of the autographic recordings shows that there were no technical difficulties and that there was no shortage of fuel. Judging from the abovementioned, specialists are now “tactfully” trying to come up with as many moderate formulations in order to save the crew from any offensive remarks and/or accusations. If this information turns out to be true, then we begin to suspect the “Armavia” administration’s announcements, claiming that the crew was professional. In response to our question, press speaker for “Armavia” Jasmine Vilyan said:
“We don’t think it’s right to come up with a version and comment on that until the studies are not over and we don’t have the results.”
If this version is presented as the official version, will “Armavia” try to protest?
“We’ll see,” was her answer.
In any case, the “human factor” stated by the Russia’s Ambassador to Armenia and the anonymous source of the MC newspaper could have been theoretically perceived as true, if aviation specialists didn’t consider the people giving this flow of information as unintelligent. According to head of the National Aviation Union and well-known pilot of the USSR Dmitri Adbashyan, the person giving that flow of information has made an illiterate announcement, which nobody has really paid any attention to. The thing is that there is a huge difference between the “human factor” and the “pilot’s mistake”. The pilot can make a mistake due to ignorance. The MC newspaper writes that the pilot lost his perception of distance. This says a lot about the pilot’s ignorance and not the human factor.
“Accusing the pilot of something like that means that the pilot didn’t even know the basics. The first thing that a pilot learns is to picture the distance with the help of the equipment. According to MC, the airplane was technically equipped and the equipment functioned well, so the pilot couldn’t have lost his perception of distance.”
Dmitri Adbashyan is certain that the flow of information was given on purpose or by an ignorant person.
“They are trying to make us believe that we just can’t accuse the people, especially the pilot, the victims, but we are forced to do that. The pilot was the one to blame. But I don’t believe that. I have my own version-the pilots weren’t able to control the plane and it fell. Why did the plane fall? It lost speed, that’s why. The reason that the plane lost speed was probably because of the aerial loss. For example, it could have gone too high.”
If that could have theoretically been one of the reasons, then why did the committee have to hide that and not let the public know?
“In that case, everyone will know that the Sochi airport staff can’t secure the flights. For example, the airport doesn’t have special devices to find out the aerial loss. We are living in the 21st century and there must be some kinds of devices underwater, which can detect the losses or the reasons 4-6 kilometers away,” says Dmitri Adbashyan.
As for the “dispatcher factor”, he was simply doing his job.
“The meteorological station told him that the lower layer of the clouds is lower than the minimum level, but it wasn’t that low to have the plane crash.”
According to the anonymous source, the pilot could have lost his perception of distance due to distraction. What could have distracted the pilot?
“That’s impossible. The pilot is thinking about his landing the whole time,” says Dmitri Adbashyan. Could the pressure by the passengers and the state officials on the plane have distracted the pilot or caused him to steer the plane in the wrong direction?
“The professional knows what he is doing. I don’t think that was the case for Grigor Grigoryan. He was a professional. If there was any pressure, we would have heard that on the autographic recording.”
Dmitri Adbashyan is certain that people won’t know the truth even after decrypting the black boxes.
“I’m not sure if we will find out the truth. We may see some sides playing games and they are of their interests. For example, based on the information, I found out that the “Airbus” company is not to blame and I disagree with that. There may be some mistakes while making estimations for the plane and some factors could have an influence, for example, the aerial losses that I mentioned. If they announce that the human factor was the reason for the plane crash, that will simply mean that the same thing can happen again. I believe that no matter how technically equipped the plane was, it could have had some flaw which the professionals hadn’t paid attention to. The person giving the flow of information knows that he has committed a crime. I’m sure he did that on purpose. They manipulated him-they told him to give that information and see what happens. I’m telling you-either that person is ignorant, or he is simply fooling us.”