MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov has signed an order to pay 100,000 rubles ($3,700) to the families of 113 people killed in a Black Sea air crash May 3, the government said Thursday.
An Airbus owned by Armenia's Armavia airline crashed in stormy weather near the Russian resort of Sochi while flying from the Armenian capital, Yerevan, on May 3.
The compensation will be paid out for all of the victims of the disaster. The Finance Ministry will allocate the resources from a government reserve fund during 2006, and forward them to the administration of Krasnoyarsk Territory, where the tragedy occurred.
The recovery operation at the scene of the tragedy was officially declared over on Wednesday, but Tatiana Anodina, head of the Interstate Aviation Committee, said experts may face problems deciphering flight data from the plane wreck, as the magnetic tape from its cockpit flight recorder was seriously damaged.
She said experts might have to decipher each fragment of the tape separately, and that this may take them longer than the 15-day timeframe announced earlier.
