French investigate turbulent Rio-Paris flight

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French aviation investigators are examining an emergency distress call from an Air France flight hit by turbulence last month, saying it could shed light on the June crash of a plane heading from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

Air France Flight 445 made it through heavy turbulence on November 29 as it flew from Rio to Paris. That was the same route, the same airline and same aircraft type — an Airbus A330-200 — as Air France Flight 447, which plunged into the Atlantic on June 1, killing all 228 people on board.