Doomed Air France plane did not break up mid-air
National Post Friday 3rd July, 2009
PARIS -- The Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic last month with 228 people on board was not destroyed in mid-air but hit the water intact and at high speed, French investigators said on T...
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