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Air France plane crashed intact - "almost vertically"

source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/07/02/air.france.report/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

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The Air France plane that crashed last month with 228 people aboard "did not break up or become destroyed in flight," the French air investigation agency announced Thursday.

"The plane went straight down ... towards the surface of the water, very very fast," air accident investigator Alain Bouillard said.

Based on visual study of the physical remains of the Airbus A330 that have been recovered, "we were able to see that the plane hit the surface of the water flat. Therefore everything was pushed upwards -- everthing was pushed from the bottom to the top" of the plane, he said.

The 228 people killed in the crash "had no time to prepare," he said.

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