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Images of Black Sea plane wreck received

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Rescuers have received images of objects believed to be parts of an Armenian Airbus A-320 airliner that crashed off Russia's Black Sea coast last week, killing all 113 people on board, an emergency service official said Saturday.

SOCHI, May 13 (RIA Novosti) -- Rescuers have received images of objects believed to be parts of an Armenian Airbus A-320 airliner that crashed off Russia's Black Sea coast last week, killing all 113 people on board, an emergency service official said Saturday.

He said experts had obtained the images using a new Kalmar deep-sea search vehicle working at the scene to locate pieces of the wreckage and the flight recorders, which are key to identifying the cause of the tragedy.

"The objects are presumably parts of the airliner. They have been found with the same coordinates as the radio signals believed to be coming from the flight recorders," he said, adding that the Kalmar deep-sea craft would continue scanning the seabed to obtain better images of parts of the A-320.

The Airbus, owned by Armenia's Armavia airline, crashed in stormy weather near the Russian resort of Sochi on May 3.

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