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Two French Army Training Helicopters Crash, Five Dead
Two French military helicopters belonging to an army flight training school crashed in the southeastern Var region on Friday, causing deaths, the local prefecture said.
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Video 'Shows Cabin Chaos' in Seconds Before Germanwings Crash: Reports
A video purportedly showing the final seconds inside the cabin of the ill-fated Germanwings airliner minutes before it crashed emerged Tuesday, with two European media claiming to have seen the footage.
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Pilots Were Sleeping When Air France Flight Crashed: Report
Two out of three pilots were sleeping minutes before the Air France plane plunged into the sea off Brazil in 2009, with the loss of all 228 people on board, media reported on Monday.
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France to use DNA database in Air France probe
French investigators will use a Brazilian DNA database to help identify the remains of victims of an Air France crash two years ago, the head of a group representing the victims' Brazilian families said Wednesday.All 228 people aboard Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris died when the Airbus A330 dived into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009....
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Air France crash: Black box found
Investigators have located and recovered the memory unit of the flight data recorder of a 2009 Air France flight - a remarkable deep-sea discovery they hope will explain why the aircraft went down in a remote area of the mid-Atlantic, killing all 228 people on board.France's air accident investigation agency BEA said a search by a submarine probing...
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Air France plane crash parts found, no sign of black box yet
French officials say that specialists could start pulling up bodies and wreckage from an Air France plane from the Atlantic Ocean floor within a month.Investigators say they still haven't found the plane's black box flight recorders and it's unclear whether they are still attached to the fuselage.All 228 people aboard the plane were killed when the...
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Airbus may face charges over 2009 Rio-Paris crash
A French judge will decide Thursday whether to file preliminary charges against planemaker Airbus over the 2009 crash of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people aboard.No one survived the crash - the worst in Air France's history - and the cause remains unclear.The investigating judge will meet with lawyers from Airbu...
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Crashed Air France jet had maintenance problems?
An initial experts' report into the crash of an Air France jet off Brazil last year, which killed 228 people, points to possible maintenance problems with air speed probes, a newspaper said today. Experts said they removed nine probes out of a total of 84 seized from Air France and some were either moderately or highly degraded, which could be link...
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Bodies suggest Air France broke en route
Latest investigations into the Air France crash reveal one of the worst situations ever known in an accident.
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3 more bodies found from Air France crash site: Brazil
The Brazilian search teams on Sunday recovered three more bodies from an Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week.
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Air France crash: Terror theory not ruled out
An intensive international effort has failed to recover any wreckage of the Air France Flight 447 which vanished on Sunday with 228 people on board.
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Grief haunts Flight 447 victim's relatives
Hope is giving way to grief as it's now almost certain that passengers and crew of AF 447 will never return.
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A330-200: Well-designed and well-equipped?
Launched in 1995, the Airbus A330-200 is the newest member of the European aircraft manufacturer's twinjet family.
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Lightning bolts a risk for modern jets
Passenger jets are hit by lightning every 1,000 hours and experts say the risk from the bolts of electricity is growing.
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Two French Army Training Helicopters Crash, Five Dead
Two French military helicopters belonging to an army flight training school crashed in the southeastern Var region on Friday, causing deaths, the local prefecture said.
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Video 'Shows Cabin Chaos' in Seconds Before Germanwings Crash: Reports
A video purportedly showing the final seconds inside the cabin of the ill-fated Germanwings airliner minutes before it crashed emerged Tuesday, with two European media claiming to have seen the footage.
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Pilots Were Sleeping When Air France Flight Crashed: Report
Two out of three pilots were sleeping minutes before the Air France plane plunged into the sea off Brazil in 2009, with the loss of all 228 people on board, media reported on Monday.
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France to use DNA database in Air France probe
French investigators will use a Brazilian DNA database to help identify the remains of victims of an Air France crash two years ago, the head of a group representing the victims' Brazilian families said Wednesday.All 228 people aboard Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris died when the Airbus A330 dived into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009....
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Air France crash: Black box found
Investigators have located and recovered the memory unit of the flight data recorder of a 2009 Air France flight - a remarkable deep-sea discovery they hope will explain why the aircraft went down in a remote area of the mid-Atlantic, killing all 228 people on board.France's air accident investigation agency BEA said a search by a submarine probing...
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Air France plane crash parts found, no sign of black box yet
French officials say that specialists could start pulling up bodies and wreckage from an Air France plane from the Atlantic Ocean floor within a month.Investigators say they still haven't found the plane's black box flight recorders and it's unclear whether they are still attached to the fuselage.All 228 people aboard the plane were killed when the...
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Airbus may face charges over 2009 Rio-Paris crash
A French judge will decide Thursday whether to file preliminary charges against planemaker Airbus over the 2009 crash of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people aboard.No one survived the crash - the worst in Air France's history - and the cause remains unclear.The investigating judge will meet with lawyers from Airbu...
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Crashed Air France jet had maintenance problems?
An initial experts' report into the crash of an Air France jet off Brazil last year, which killed 228 people, points to possible maintenance problems with air speed probes, a newspaper said today. Experts said they removed nine probes out of a total of 84 seized from Air France and some were either moderately or highly degraded, which could be link...
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Bodies suggest Air France broke en route
Latest investigations into the Air France crash reveal one of the worst situations ever known in an accident.
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3 more bodies found from Air France crash site: Brazil
The Brazilian search teams on Sunday recovered three more bodies from an Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week.
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Air France crash: Terror theory not ruled out
An intensive international effort has failed to recover any wreckage of the Air France Flight 447 which vanished on Sunday with 228 people on board.
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Grief haunts Flight 447 victim's relatives
Hope is giving way to grief as it's now almost certain that passengers and crew of AF 447 will never return.
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A330-200: Well-designed and well-equipped?
Launched in 1995, the Airbus A330-200 is the newest member of the European aircraft manufacturer's twinjet family.
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Lightning bolts a risk for modern jets
Passenger jets are hit by lightning every 1,000 hours and experts say the risk from the bolts of electricity is growing.
