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| Air France jet 'broke on impact' | Air France jet 'broke on impact' |
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| French investigators trying to find out why an Air France plane crashed in the Atlantic say they believe it broke up on contact with water, not in the air. | French investigators trying to find out why an Air France plane crashed in the Atlantic say they believe it broke up on contact with water, not in the air. |
| They said they reached that conclusion after examining the plane's wreckage. | They said they reached that conclusion after examining the plane's wreckage. |
| All 228 people aboard the plane were killed when it plunged into the ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on 1 June. | All 228 people aboard the plane were killed when it plunged into the ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on 1 June. |
| Teams looking for the plane's flight data recorders will continue operations for another 10 days, an official said. | Teams looking for the plane's flight data recorders will continue operations for another 10 days, an official said. |
| Alain Bouillard of the investigating team said the plane probably hit the water belly-first. | |
| He said the plane "appears to have hit the surface of the water in flying position with a strong acceleration". | |
| The investigators also said that faulty speed sensors, which were suspected of being behind the crash, had been "a factor but not the cause". |