Search efforts for Air France crash

Published: 4 June 2009 y., Thursday
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The Brazilian airforce surveys the area of the wreckage of an Air France flight carrying 228 people that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil.
But investigators warned the full story behind France's worst air disaster may never be known.

Šaltinis: Reuters
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