MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - Experts will need about a fortnight to decipher the flight data from an Armenian Airbus that crashed into the Black Sea May 3, killing 113 people, an official said Wednesday.
Rudolf Teimurazov, the chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee, 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."
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. All those on board died.
