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What Happened to Flight 447?

Joanne Poesch, 06/03/09
A big thanks to Salon.com and 'Ask the Pilot' author Patrick Smith for helping make sense of the Air France tragedy. In this article, Patrick explains how a combination of lightening and turbulance might well have brought down the mighty Airbus.
June 2, 2009 | SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Lightning and turbulence. Did one or a combination of these things cause the crash of Air France Flight 447 over the South Atlantic on Sunday evening? The evidence, scant as it is, suggests it might have.

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