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Brazilian Air Force
Denies Mistakes In Air
France Flight 447 Case
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil's Air
Force released a statement on Friday in which it
denies any errors in the Air France Flight 447 case,
and said it warned the Senegalese air traffic
control that the Air France's Flight 447 was heading
to.
Brazil Air Force also released an audio record of
communication with the doomed Air France plane on
the day to avoid the blame from French investigation
report that Brazil's slowness to notice the lost of
Flight 447 delayed the searching efforts.
The statement said, Flight 447 made the last contact
with Brazil at 10:33 p.m. local time on May 31 (0133
GMT, June 1), and informed the estimated time to
pass the next checkpoint. The Brazilian air traffic
control, then informed Dakar of the plane's
position, and Dakar confirmed the reception of the
information.
Brazil Air Force also mentioned an agreement with
Senegalese air traffic control departments which
says if a plane enters Senegalese airspace in time,
it is not necessary to inform the Brazilian
authorities to formalize the control transference.
Brazil Air Force therefore concluded it should be
the Senegalese responsibility to timely check the
plane's position and to alert Brazil about the lost
of contact.
The first report released by French investigators
did not shed much light on the causes of the June 1
crash of Flight 447, which fell into the Atlantic
Ocean and killed 228 people on board.
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