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Family members of one of the men killed in the Air New Zealand Airbus crash have arrived in Perpignan.
Engineer Murray White was one of four Air New Zealand staff on board the aircraft which crashed off the coast of France on Friday.
Murray White's family has been accompanied to France by Air New Zealand's chief executive Rob Fyfe.
The engineer's partner Emma Gould says she and her mother have been strong on a long trip over from New Zealand. She says it is important she is there at the location of the crash, to bring her closer to Murray.
Ms Gould says she hopes she will be able to bring her partner's body back home.
There is some doubt being cast on accounts of what happened in the moments before the crash of the Airbus.
Some witnesses have told French media the plane was struggling on one engine, and pitched wildly before hitting the water off Perpignan.
Aviation commentator Peter Clark says the stories do not really add up to a plausible picture of what might have caused the crash, which claimed seven lives.
He says eyewitness reports of accidents can also be unreliable. He says six different people could witness the same thing and give completely different accounts of it.
French divers have found the voice recorder, but are still working to recover the flight data recorder.
Air New Zealand chief Rob Fyfe is in Perpignan heading up the company's team responding to the crash, and dealing with family members.
- NEWSTALK ZB
