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By Cecilia Adamou The chilling last words of the pilots attempting to control an Air France flight as it plummeted towards to sea show that they knew there was nothing they could do to save the 228 lives onboard. In one of the most notorious air accidents of all time, the Airbus A330 was travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on 1 June 2009 when complications with the air-speed sensor caused by ice and bad weather lead to a complex chain of errors that ultimately resulted in the plane ending its journey at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, killing all 228 passengers on board. It wasn’t until …