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Airbus plunged vertically into sea

Updated on 02 July 2009

Source PA News

The Air France Airbus which crashed into the Atlantic killing 228 people plunged vertically into the ocean intact and at high speed, investigators have said.

Alain Bouillard, leading the investigation into the crash on June 1 said the plane's speed sensors, called pitot tubes, were not the direct cause of the crash but a factor in it.

Announcing initial findings of the crash inquiry in Paris, he admitted: "Today we are very far from establishing the causes of the accident."

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