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Airbus says preliminary Air France crash info "significant"


    PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus said on Friday that preliminary information released by French air authorities on the Rio-Paris airplane crash was a "significant step" in understanding the causes of the crash, which killed all 228 people on board.

    "The BEA's work constitutes a significant step towards the identification of the complete chain of events that led to the tragic accident of Air France flight 447 in June 2009," said Airbus in a statement.

    France's BEA air accident authority released information on Friday indicating that the pilots battled with controls for more than four minutes before the Airbus A330 airliner plunged into the Atlantic on June 1, 2009.

    (Reporting by Alexandria Sage)