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Mon 11 Nov 2009Families of air crash victims at Rio service
THE FAMILIES of two young Irish doctors who died when an Air France aircraft crashed off Brazil’s northeast coast in June were among hundreds of bereaved relatives who attended a memorial service in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.
Some 228 passengers and crew, including three Irish women, lost their lives when flight AF447 plunged into the Atlantic some 1,000 kilometres off the Brazilian coast while en route to Paris from Rio on June 1st.
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