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A preliminary report released last July described a confused Air France cockpit crew getting incoherent speed readings from faulty sensors, but it didn't draw a conclusion on what caused the crash. It said the crew, who lacked the proper training to head off high-altitude disaster, flew toward it instead, with wrong-headed maneuvers, no task-sharing and perhaps unaware their flight was about to end in the Atlantic Ocean. Everyone aboard the plane was killed. The BEA's findings last year raised worrisome questions about the reactions of the two co-pilots as the A330 went into an aerodynamic stall, and their ability to fly manually as the autopilot disengaged. Broader concerns were raised about training for pilots flying high-tech planes when confronted with a high-altitude crisis. The report included a study of the plane's black box flight recorders, uncovered in a costly and extraordinarily complex search in the ocean depths. In a separate French judicial investigation still under way, Air France and Airbus have been handed preliminary manslaughter charges.
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