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Investigators recover an engine piece from a 2017 Air France incident from beneath Greenland ice

Searchers used a robot and modified radar to help them reach part of an Air France engine buried under two years of snow and ice.

By Kevin McGwin July 8, 2019
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An international team of investigators has recovered part of an Air France jet engine buried 13 feet (four meters) beneath the surface the Greenland ice cap after it was lost over the country two years ago.

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