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What: Air France Airbus A330-200 en route from Sao Paulo to Paris Charles de Gaulle
Where: over Atlantic
When: Nov 30th 2009
Who: not available
Why: While en route over the Atlantic ( 680nm northeast of Fortaleza, Brazil and 750nm southwest of Praia, Cape Verde) the flight encountered severe turbulence, that led them to send out a mayday call, that was relayed by another Airbus amidflight from Paris to Rio.
They descended to a lower altitude, and landed at Paris six hours forty minutes after the mayday call. This was reputedly one of several flights experiencing similar turbulence in the same area over the past month.

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