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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. | |
| Alain Bouillard, of the BEA accident investigation agency, said the plane probably hit the water "in flying position with a strong acceleration". | |
| He said that faulty speed sensors, which were suspected of being behind the crash, had been "a factor but not the cause". | |
| Mr Bouillard also said the search for the Airbus A330's black box data recorders would be extended to 10 June. | |
| Search teams have recovered 51 bodies from the ocean but said last month that finding any more remains was "impossible". |