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  1. Photo: Pete Macklin / CC BY-SA 2.0

    Air France Flight 447

    The Rio to Paris flight lost over the Atlantic

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    On 1 June 2009 Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330 flying overnight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, stalled at 38,000 feet over the Atlantic after ice crystals blocked its airspeed probes and the autopilot disconnected. It struck the ocean four and a half minutes later, and all 228 people on board were killed.

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  2. Photo: Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland / CC BY-SA 2.0

    Air Transat Flight 236

    The glide to the Azores

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    On 24 August 2001 an Air Transat Airbus A330 flying from Toronto to Lisbon lost all its fuel over the Atlantic through a leak in its right engine, and both engines stopped. The crew glided it to Lajes in the Azores and landed, and all 306 people on board survived.

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