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The French investigators released the first preliminary findings on the Air France flight 447 crash today saying the flight did not break up mid air but hit the Atlantic Ocean intact, belly first.
Earlier reports from the Brazilian authorities suggested that the autopsy of the victim's bodies shows that the injuries sustained indicated that the flight broke up midair. Examining the wreckage retrieved so far led the investigators to infer that the flight was intact as it hit the water.
Alain Bouillard, the head of the French team investigating the crash that killed all 228 passengers on board said in a press conference that "Today we are very far from establishing the causes of the accident".
The lead investigator said the plane was not destroyed in flight.
"The plane seems to have hit the surface of the water on its flight trajectory with a strong vertical acceleration," he said.
Moreover, "neither traces of fire nor traces of explosives" were found, said Bouillard, eliminating any possibility of mid air explosion and the role of terrorism.
The life jackets obtained from the wreckage were not inflated indicating that the passengers did not have any time to react.
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