Air France crash probe begins amid dispute over landing

INVESTIGATORS said yesterday that the Air France jet which crashed earlier this week in Canada appeared to have landed too far down the runway.

This may have led to it skidding into a ravine before bursting into flames.

They were quick to add it was too soon to determine whether the long landing on the 2,700-metre runway, combined with torrential rains and gusting winds, was to blame for the crash on Tuesday, which all 309 people on board remarkably survived.