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French soldiers secured the wreckage site of an Air Algérie flight that crashed in Mali, killing all 116 people on board including nine Canadian residents

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The crash site of Air Algérie flight AH5017 is seen near the northern Mali town of Gossi in this undated handout picture released by ECPAD, the French Army Communication Audiovisual office, on July 25, 2014.ECPAD/Reuters

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This photo provided on Friday, July 25, 2014, by the Burkina Faso Military shows the site of the plane crash in Mali.BURKINA FASO MILITARY/The Associated Press

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Debris is seen at the crash site of Air Algérie flight AH5017 near the northern Mali town of Gossi, July 24, 2014. Poor weather was the most likely cause of the crash of an Air Algerie flight in the West African state of Mali that killed all 118 people on board, French officials said on Friday.Reuters

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This photo provided Friday, July 25, 2014 by the French army shows the site of the plane crash in Mali.ECPAD/The Associated Press

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This photo provided on Friday, July 25, 2014, by the Burkina Faso Military shows a man at the site of the plane crash in Mali.BURKINA FASO MILITARY/The Associated Press

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This photo provided on Friday, July 25, 2014, by the Burkina Faso Military shows the site of the plane crash in Mali.BURKINA FASO MILITARY/The Associated Press

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