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Air France: Obese passengers to be charged double

Air France: Obese passengers to be charged double


Air France spokesmen reported that “In regular flights, obese people pay two seats instead of one for security reasons.

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Air France’s  Airbus A380 forced return to New York

Air France’s Airbus A380 forced return to New York


An Air France Airbus A380 which covers the New York – Paris route had to return to New York’s airport by a computer malfunction that was described as “minor.”

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Rio de Janeiro paid tribute to Air France Flight 447’s victims

Rio de Janeiro paid tribute to Air France Flight 447’s victims


A ceremony restricted to about 500 families and a few guests remembered Saturday Air France flight 447’s accident that took place in June a few hours after it took off for Paris.

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Flight AF 447 crash “could have been avoided”

Flight AF 447 crash “could have been avoided”


Gérard Arnoux, commander of A320 and Henri-Marnet Cornus, captain on the A340, reported after an investigation the accident “was due to ‘negligence’ the accident in which 228 people died probably could have been avoided.”

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Air France tragedy: last body identified

Air France tragedy: last body identified


In Brazil, forensic experts identified the last body recovered from the Atlantic, after the accident of flight AF 447 Air France, on June 1st this year, and fell into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people on board, while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

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Air france: new problems with speed sensors

Air france: new problems with speed sensors


An Air France flight from Rome to Paris earlier this month briefly lost its speed readings due to faulty sensors.

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Air France: Flight 447 victims did not suffocate

Air France: Flight 447 victims did not suffocate


The victims of Air France flight 447 who fell down to the Atlantic Ocean last June 1st did not suffocate, according to the first conclusions from autopsies, quoted today by French newspaper “Le Figaro”.

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Air France tragedy: today the black boxes stop emitting signals

Air France tragedy: today the black boxes stop emitting signals


Investigators of the Air France crash in the Atlantic Ocean that killed 228 people may find it tougher to determine the cause of the accident as sound emitters from the plane’s data recorders start running out of power.

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Brazil calls off search for Air France victims

Brazil calls off search for Air France victims


Brazil’s Air Force and Navy on Friday called off the search for additional victims and wreckage from Air France Flight 447, which crashed over the Atlantic on June 1 carrying 228 people.

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Brazilian Air France crew member buried in Rio

Brazilian Air France crew member buried in Rio


The body of a flight attendant aboard ill-fated Air France 447 has been buried in Rio de Janeiro, more than three weeks after the Paris-bound flight vanished with 228 people on board.

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Air France pilot of flight 447 was identified

Air France pilot of flight 447 was identified


Search crews in the mid-Atlantic have retrieved the bodies of the chief pilot of Flight 447 and a flight attendant, Air France said Thursday.

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Official: No black box signals from Flight 447

Official: No black box signals from Flight 447


French warships searching for the black boxes of Air France’s Flight AF447 detected sounds in the Atlantic Ocean but they are not from the plane’s flight recorders, officials said Tuesday.

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Atlantic crash bodies identified

Atlantic crash bodies identified


Officials in Brazil have identified the first 11 of 50 bodies recovered from the Air France disaster in which 228 people died three weeks ago.

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Air France to compensate crash victims’ families

Air France to compensate crash victims’ families


Air France will compensate through its insurers the families of the victims of a June 1 crash in which 228 people died, the company’s chief executive said on Friday.

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Search for Flight 447 to continue

Search for Flight 447 to continue


The arduous mid-Atlantic search for the remains of Air France Flight 447 will go on as long as there is hope of finding the plane’s black boxes, the French defense minister said Tuesday.

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No French access to Brazil plane crash autopsies

No French access to Brazil plane crash autopsies


A French pathologist sent to Brazil had not been authorized to take part in the autopsies of recovered bodies, and France had not had access to the Brazilian autopsy results.

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Sabotage in an Airbus

Sabotage in an Airbus


Air France revealed today a jet heading for Paris was sabotaged just three days after the crash which killed 228 people.

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Air France: 50 recovered bodies, 24 messages sent from the plane and June 25 is the tentative date for calling the search off

Air France: 50 recovered bodies, 24 messages sent from the plane and June 25 is the tentative date for calling the search off


The search for bodies and debris from Air France Flight 447 took on renewed urgency, meanwhile, as experts questioned how much longer efforts would prove fruitful, even as six more bodies were pulled from the Atlantic.

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Air France: The recovered bodies are “unrecognizable”

Air France: The recovered bodies are “unrecognizable”


The authorities of the Brazilian Air Force informed that in accordance with the declarations of the forensic scientists, the first 16 bodies they analyzed are unrecognizable, and in high decomposition grade.

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Air France wreckage searchers recover six bodies and reinforces the theory that the plane disintegrated in the air

Air France wreckage searchers recover six bodies and reinforces the theory that the plane disintegrated in the air


Six more bodies from last week’s Air France crash have been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean by the French ship Mistral. The theory that the plane disintegrated in the air is reinforced because most bodies were found without clothes, which could have been taken by the wind during the fall.

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