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Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:44 PM

Published 10/26/2009 by ABC Online


Faulty radar may have caused Air France crash

There is fresh evidence about the potential cause of an Air France Airbus crash which killed all 228 people on board when it plunged into the Atlantic while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

The Airbus A330 disappeared on June 1, when it flew into a notoriously stormy area of the South Atlantic.

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Faulty radar may have caused Air France crash [ABC Online - 10/26/2009]

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