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SOCHI, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - The flight data from an Armenian Airbus that crashed into the Black Sea May 3, killing 113 people, will be deciphered in Russia, an official said Wednesday.
Tatiana Anodina, head of the Interstate Aviation Committee, said French equipment could be used for deciphering the data.
The recovery operation at the scene of the tragedy was officially declared over earlier Wednesday.
Rudolf Teimurazov, a representative of the Interstate Aviation Committee, said earlier experts would need about a fortnight to decipher the data.
He said the two black boxes, the second of which was recovered early Wednesday morning from a depth of about 500 meters (1,640 feet), would be handed over to the committee's experts within the timeframe set by a government commission.
"A government commission working at the crash site will set the date for handing over the flight recorders to the Interstate Aviation Committee," he said. "Usually it takes experts about 15 days to decipher flight data."
He also said cockpit flight recorder's information was on a magnetic tape but the flight data from the other black box was on a hard drive.
The airliner, operated by Armenia's Armavia, crashed while flying from the Armenian capital, Yerevan, in stormy weather 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) from Russia's Adler airport, which services the popular resort of Sochi.
