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In the result of the six-month negotiations between the General Department of Civil Aviation at the Government of RA and the Concessionaire (“Armenia International Airports” CJSC) an agreement has been concluded to transfer the Fire Fighting service to the Concessionaire.
This decision is stipulated by the needs to correspond the fire fighting system in “Zvartnots” international airport with the requirements of Chicago Convention and to introduce new technologies, particularly for improving the quality of work of the airport fire and rescue units
in case of fire or emergencies in the territory of the airport, as well as to obtain new equipment.
Basic and principal changes will be done in the Fire Fighting service, in the result of which the Concessionaire will be able to provide Fire Protection within one year in accordance with
ICAO category 8th.
On July26, 2006 the GDCA at the Government of RA received an official report from the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) about the investigation results of A-320 accident.
The Commission of IAC, which was involving the representatives of Russian Transport Inspection, Russian air navigation, aviation authorities of Russian Federation and the Republic of Armenia and with the participation of the French specialists, who have designed and manufactured the aircraft, has completed the investigation of A-320 accident belonging to “Armavia” air company.
The crash happened on May 3,2006 at 02:13(Moscow time) in the vicinity of Sochi airport.
The investigation has been carried out in accordance with ICAO standards, the Interstate Agreement signed between 12 regional states, including as well Russia and Armenia and the Investigation rules of civil aircraft aviation occurrences approved by the Russian Government.
As it was told, at 6 kilometers from the shore line the aircraft came into collision with the water surface of the Black Sea, crashed and sank. All the people on board: crewmembers and 105 passengers were killed.
During the investigation all the documents concerning the aircraft, the crew and service providing departments were collected and studied and the decoding and analysis of the aircraft objective control and on ground recording devices were carried out.
With the help of modeling and situation simulating equipment, the professional group of Russian, Armenian and French specialists has carried out special studies to reveal the conditions and circumstances of the accident in authentic timing synchronization.
In the result of the investigation the following has been revealed that:
The aircraft, while carrying out the flight by autopilot, was on the correct final approach, when according to the controller’s instruction, which was stipulated by poor meteo conditions
(lower ceiling), at about 340m height, the crew stopped to descend and started right turn by climbing.
During that turn the captain switched off the autopilot and after short climbing in the conditions of losing horizontal and vertical aircraft positioning control, started to descend manually.
During such non- adequate operations carried out by the captain, the co-pilot’s necessary descent monitoring of the parameters (pitch angle, height, vertical speed) was absent, too. The later crew actions were directed to the required climbing and the ground proximity warning system signals were non- coordinated and insufficient to stop the aircraft descending.
There were no engine or system failures, the aircraft reacted both to the autopilot and manual operations by the crew. The quantity of fuel was enough to carry out a safe flight.
Today the Minister of RF Transport Igor Levitin and the President of CIS Interstate Aviation Committee Tatiana Anodina have arrived at Yerevan with an official visit. The latter has had a meeting with the Head of the General Department of Civil Aviation at RA Government Artyom Movsesyan.
They held discussions on the final results of the Investigation of A-320 crashed in Sochi on May 3rd.
The Interstate Aviation Committee will publish the final conclusion about the crash in about two weeks when the investigation is wholly completed.
Today in Toulouse, France, Interstate Aviation Committee has completed the crash simulation work of A-320/EK-32009/.
The simulation of the crash was carried out in Airbus SAS company with the participation of Armenian and Russian Aviation Authorities and the Specialists of Investigation and Analysis Bureau of France.
The specialists of the Committee, investigating the crash consequences, were able to simulate the crash with the help of the simulator comparing the voice and flight parameters of the recorders.
In the result of the simulation the Committee has found out new important information, which will be compared with the existing data, only after which Interstate Aviation Committee will submit a final conclusion.
The investigating subgroups of the Interstate Aviation Committee are going to finish the professional discussions on July10,2006.
On June 17, 2006 in Interstate Aviation Committee the deciphering work of A-320 recorders parameters and the time co-ordination of the objective monitoring aids of radio-telephony communication records (ATC recorders, radar) were completed.
The aircraft recorder had recorded information of eight flights (including the crashed flight) within April 30- May 3, 2006. The total duration of the recording was 26 hours 20 minutes including the whole recording of the last flight (1hour 26 minutes).
The following has been revealed on the basis of the last flight decoding results:
The Committee has started a complex analysis of the records of the objective monitoring aids, during which A-320 flight simulation will be executed on the simulator in authentic conditions.
In the result of the analysis and investigation a conclusion will be drawn on the reasons of the crash and assignments will be issued on the flight safety.
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