The intense media coverage of the crash added to the pressure, Bouillard said.

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The international aeronautic community will likely focus on the crew's loss of awareness of what was going on, Bouillard said.

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Some of the recommendations have already been implemented, but it could take years for others fully to come into effect, chief investigator Alain Bouillard told reporters as he introduced the report.

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