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Sarkozy: Plug air traffic gaps over Atlantic

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-07-07 21:32

PARIS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy says international officials are working out ways to avoid gaps in air traffic control over the Atlantic Ocean.

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Sarkozy says France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Cooperation Minister Alain Joyandet are going to Dakar on Tuesday to meet with Senegalese officials and discuss how to make sure "there is no more black hole" in air traffic control.

Sarkozy was speaking at a news conference Tuesday with Brazil's president.

Both leaders have cooperated after the June 1 crash of Air France Flight 447 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, which killed all 228 people aboard.

Questions have arisen over how the plane passed from air space monitored by controllers in Brazil to space monitored in Senegal.