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Found: Galley kitchen from doomed Air France flight discovered floating intact in middle of Atlantic

2009-06-19 11:10 BJT

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Floating in the middle of the Atlantic, this galley kitchen is the latest piece of Air France Flight 447 to be recovered by salvage crews.

The wreckage is extraordinarily intact despite being part of an plane that experts believe broke apart in midair.

Resilient: Salvage crews were able to recover this galley from the Atlantic, one of more than 400 pieces of wreckage found from the Air France flight
Resilient: Salvage crews were able to recover this galley from the 
Atlantic, one of more than 400 pieces of wreckage found from the 
Air France flight

Even some of the drawers, containing a selection of ready-meals for passengers, remained wedged securely inside the unit.

Autopsies on victims of Flight 447 and debris from the plane strongly suggest the plane broke up in the air, experts have said.

Fractures in the legs, hips and arms of the Air France disaster victims recovered from the Atlantic suggest the Airbus broke up midfight.

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