Passenger liner fell into the sea approaching Adler airport in Russia

Krasnodar Territory Prosecutor Sergei Yeryomin has said the recovered tail of the plane is being examined.

The investigators have also collected all audio recordings of the crew’ s exchanges with the air traffic controllers on the ground, ITAR-TASS reports.

As follows from preliminary information available at this point, the air traffic controller told the captain of the plane approaching the airport the weather in the area of Sochi-Adler was very bad and the pilot made a decision to return to Armenia’s capital Yerevan. However, a short while later an air traffic controller at Adler said the weather had improved and there was a chance to make a safe landing after all. The plane changed course again and headed for its final decision.