Brazil claims jet 'in Senegal's control'
Updated on 03 July 2009
A recording between Brazilian and Senegalese air traffic controllers relating to the crashed Air France plane has been released.
The Airbus jet went missing on June 1 during a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing all 228 people on board. The exact cause of the disaster is not yet known.
French authorities have accused Brazilian air traffic controllers of having failed to pass the flight's control to their counterparts in Dakar.
But the recording has been released by the Brazilian Air Force to prove Flight AF 447 was no longer in its country's hands when it plunged into the Atlantic.
On Thursday, the head French investigator Alain Bouillard said the pilots of the plane had tried to connect to a Dakar data system three times.
However, this failed, apparently because Dakar had never received the flight plan. But Brazilian authorities said the audio recording proves the control of the flight was turned over to Dakar's air traffic control centre.
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