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Russia sets up tech. HQ to find plane's black boxes in Black Sea

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Russia's transportation minister has ordered that emergency headquarters be set up to organize technical assistance in an international effort to retrieve the flight recorders of an Armenian plane that crashed off Russia's Black Sea coast last week, the transportation ministry said Monday.

MOSCOW, May 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's transportation minister has ordered that emergency headquarters be set up to organize technical assistance in an international effort to retrieve the flight recorders of an Armenian plane that crashed off Russia's Black Sea coast last week, the transportation ministry said Monday.

The ministry said that Igor Levitin had appointed Alexander Davydenko, head of the Federal Sea and River Transportation Agency (Rosmorrechflot) to oversee the headquarters, which will include Russian rescuers, experts from the Interstate Aviation Committee, and French specialists.

The Airbus A-320 airliner crashed into the sea on Wednesday, killing all 113 people on board.

Three Russian ships are now working at site of the crash - the Zaliv, the Kapitan Beklemishev, and the Cheliken. The Zaliv hosts a new Kalmar deep-sea search vehicle designed to locate parts of the wreckage and flight recorders, which are seen as the key to explaining the cause of the tragedy.

French specialists with equipment needed to search for the flight recorders are expected to arrive in Sochi on Tuesday.

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