Bad Weather A Factor In Air France Crash...

Bad Weather A Factor In Air France Crash...

Investigators said Wednesday a heavy rainstorm accompanied by lightning and strong winds was a factor that caused an Air France jet to skid off a Toronto runway and burst into flames, prompting 309 passengers and crew to slide down escape chutes in an evacuation that took less than two minutes.

The black boxes of Flight 358 from Paris will be retrieved Wednesday, investigators said. The plane skidded off the runway at Lester B. Pearson International Airport while landing at about 4 p.m. Tuesday in a pounding storm.

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