French: Air France plane hit the sea belly first

// July 2nd, 2009 // News

LE BOURGET, France (AP) — An intact Air France Flight 447 slammed belly first into the Atlantic Ocean at a very high speed, a top French investigator said Thursday, adding that problems with the plane’s speed sensors were not the direct cause of the crash. Alain Bouillard, who is leading the investigation into the June 1 crash for the French accident agency BEA, says the speed sensors, called Pitot tubes, were “a factor but not the only one.” “It is an element but not the cause,” Bouillard told a news conference in Le Bourget outside Paris.

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French: Air France plane hit the sea belly first

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