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Air France disaster: Iberia flight avoided storm

Madrid, Spain - Super-hail-tempest hypothesis gets credit

The storm that might have been the cause of Mondays accident to the Air France Airbus A-330/200, flight AF447, that ditched in the Atlantic with 228 people on board, could possibly be avoided. This according to what was reported today by Spanish newspaper "Abc" that interviewed the crew of Iberia flight IB6024 that departed from Rio de Janeiro to Madrid a few minutes later and along the same route...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1105463
Rome, Italy, 06/05/2009 14:05
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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