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Senior pilots were asleep until minutes before Air France crash disaster

Two senior pilots flying the doomed Air France plane which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing all on board including three Irish doctors, were asleep until moments before it hit a tropical storm.

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Pilots ‘insufficiently trained’ to fly doomed Airbus jet

THE crew piloting a doomed Air France jet over the Atlantic did not realise the plane was in a stall, were insufficiently trained in flying manually, and never informed the passengers that anything was wrong before they plunged into the sea.

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Probe finds intact Air France jet slammed belly first into Atlantic

AN INTACT Air France Flight 447 slammed belly first into the Atlantic Ocean at a high speed, a top French investigator has said, adding that problems with the plane’s speed sensors were not the direct cause of the crash.

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Air France crash still a mystery

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Airbus crash 'not caused by breaking up in flight'

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Search crews find bodies from Air France jet

Autopilot wasn't working on Flight 447

The head of the French agency leading the investigation into the crash of Air France Flight 447 said today that signals from the plane before it disappeared showed its autopilot wasn’t on.

Sat, 06 Jun, 2009

Air France plane black box 'may be lost forever'

The black box flight recorders of doomed Air France flight 447 may never be found, a leading accident investigator said today.

Wed, 03 Jun, 2009

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