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Large fragments of jet found in Black Sea raise black box hopes

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SOCHI, May 4 (RIA Novosti) - Hopes to find the flight recorders of an Armenian plane that crashed into the Black Sea Wednesday rose Thursday after a rescuer said that large pieces of the jet had been found on the seabed.

Investigators are searching for the black boxes of the A-320 Airbus that plunged into the sea six kilometers form the coast, killing all the 113 people onboard, including six children.

"It is possible that the discovered parts will contain the black boxes," the rescuer said.

Earlier, Airbus said their planes were designed so that black boxes were provided with a special radio signal to make it easier to find them, and experts from France said they had picked up a weak signal that could lead the operation to one of them.

"In the next few hours, we will identify the location (of the plane parts) and summon all the deep-sea special equipment to the site," the rescuer said.

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