Mourning in Paris for the Air France Victims

The World

A memorial service is being held at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris for the passengers of Air France Flight 447, which vanished off the coast of Brazil on its way to France. The BBC’s Adam Mynott is in Paris; he talks to The Takeaway about how investigators will unravel the mystery of the crash.

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