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Sad tale of two pilots who fell asleep before crash that killed 228 people

France: Two out of three Air France pilots were sleeping minutes before one shouted 'we're dead!' and their plane plunged into the sea with the loss of all 228 people on board.

Horrific details of the last moments of Flight 447, which claimed the lives of five Britons and three Irish doctors, have emerged in a disturbing new investigation into the 2009 disaster involving an Airbus 330.

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