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Picking Up Pieces From a Midair Explosion

From popped rivets to a shredded oxygen mask: The Daily Beast’s aviation expert decodes new evidence in the ongoing investigation of Air France Flight 447’s mysterious crash.

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Piece by tiny piece, a picture emerges of what happened physically to Air France Flight 447. But not why. Debris displayed for photographers in Recife, Brazil, may appear scant, but there were two very suggestive details.

One was a curved piece of the A330’s structure about three feet long.

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