MOSCOW, May 3 (RIA Novosti) - The bodies of 46 people have been recovered from the crash site of an Airbus airliner that plunged into the Black Sea near the Russian coast early Wednesday morning, a local prosecutor said.
A total of 113 people are presumed dead after the A-320, which belonged to Armenia's Armavia Airlines, crashed en route from the capital Yerevan to the airport servicing the Russian resort of Sochi.
"The bodies of 46 people have been retrieved so far, [and] the identification process has started," said Sergei Yeremen, the prosecutor for the Russian southern region of Krasnodar.
Yeremin said the plane's flight data recorders, which could help explain the crash, had not been discovered. Divers are expected to arrive to search wreckage at a depth of 400 meters (over 1,302 feet).
Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said bad weather was the most likely cause of the crash, but several other versions of the tragedy were being considered, including a mistake by the pilot, a technical malfunction or a mistake by air traffic controllers.
