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Air France jet 'broke on impact'

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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.

All 228 people on the plane were killed when it plunged into the ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on 1 June. Tom Symonds reports.

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