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Airspeed
sensors eyed in crash of Air France Flight 447
PARIS,
June 12 (Xinhua) --An investigation of the crash of Air France Flight 447
is eying the possibility that defective airspeed sensors gave false
readings to the plane's computers, but officials say it will be awhile
before the cause of the mishap is known.
49 bodies retrieved so far from Air France jetliner
 BRASILIA, June 14 (Xinhua) -- A total of 49 bodies had so far been recovered from the Air France passenger plane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean nearly two weeks ago, the Brazilian navy said on Sunday. Full story
BRASILIA, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian Aeronautics
said on Thursday that they have recovered three more bodies of the victims
of the ill-fated Air France flight 447, near Fernando Noronha archipelago,
bringing the total to 44.
BRASILIA, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian search crews
recovered the vertical stabilizer from a crashed Air France plane in the
open Atlantic Ocean, Brazil's military said Monday.
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 8 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian Air Force
and Navy announced on Monday evening that they managed to recover eight
more bodies of Air France Flight 447's passengers during the day, raising
to 24 the total of recovered bodies.
BRASILIA, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's navy and its
aeronautics authority on Sunday confirmed that 17 bodies have arrived in
the city of Recife from Air France's flight 447, which crashed over
Atlantic ocean on the night of May 31, while flying from Rio de Janeiro to
Paris.
BRASILIA, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Three more bodies were found
Sunday in the Atlantic Ocean near the site where an Air France jetliner
was believed to have crashed a week ago, Brazilian military officials
said.
PARIS, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Finding the flight data and cabin
voice recorders of the ill-fated Air France jetliner is the top priority
of the ongoing investigation, French Junior Transport Minister Dominique
Bussereau said Sunday.
PARIS, June 6 (Xinhua) -- The agency investigating the crash
of Flight 447 said on Saturday that signals from the missing Air France
jetliner suggest that its autopilot was not on before it vanished.
BRASILIA/PARIS, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Two male bodies were
retrieved Saturday morning from the crashed Airbus A330 as investigations
revealed problematic speed monitors on the Air France jetliner.
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 5 (Xinhua) -- One more French plane
Friday joined the search for the missing Air France Flight 447 and two
more Brazilian ships are heading to the waters where the plane is believed
to have crashed, the Brazilian military said.
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 4 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian Navy
announced on Thursday that the oil tracks spotted by the search teams will
make it possible to calculate where the Air France Airbus connected to the
water.
BRASILIA, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Debris recovered Thursday from
the Atlantic did not come from the Air France jet believed to have fallen
down, Brazil's air force said.
PARIS, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Over 60 percent French have lost
confidence in finding the true cause for Monday's disappearance of Air
France Flight AF447, a latest poll published on Thursday showed.
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Defense Minister
Nelson Jobim announced on Wednesday evening that Air Force planes managed
to spot some internal parts of the crashed Air France Airbus on the
Atlantic Ocean.
RIO DE JANEIRO/PARIS, June 3 (Xinhua) -- More debris from
the Air France Flight 447 has been found on Wednesday, but the whereabouts
of its black box remained a mystery.
DAKAR, June 3 (Xinhua) -- French air force on Wednesday
dispatched a plane equipped with an "airborne warning and control system"
(AWACS) to join three other planes in searching for the debris of the
passenger plane which went missing on Monday over the Atlantic.
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian Air Force
announced on Wednesday that more debris from the Air France Flight 447 has
been found.
PARIS, June 3 (Xinhua) -- French Foreign Minister Bernard
Kouchner will visit Brazil to attend ceremonies in honor of victims of the
Air France Airbus A330 flight AF447, announced the French officials on
Wednesday.
PARIS, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The French accident investigation
agency said on Wednesday it was not hopeful that the black box of the
missing Air France airliner would be found.
PARIS, June 2 (Xinhua) -- A debris field scattered across
three miles (five kilometers) of open water marks the spot in the Atlantic
Ocean where an Air France Airbus A330-200 went down with 228 people on
board.
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 2 (Xinhua) -- No objects have been
discovered by three cargo ships arriving at the area in the Atlantic off
Brazil's coast where an Air France plane crashed, the Brazilian Navy said
on Tuesday.
PARIS, June 2 (Xinhua) -- A French expert said on Tuesday
that the missing of Air France Flight 447, believed to have crashed, was
most likely the result of a technical failure caused by bad weather.
PARIS,
June 2 (Xinhua) -- French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday it
is still unclear what caused the disappearance of the Air France
Airbus.
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Brazil Tuesday confirmed
the debris found earlier on the open Atlantic Ocean belonged to Air France
Flight 447, solidifying the crash of the jet that went missing early
Monday.
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 2 (Xinhua) -- The debris found earlier
in the day undoubtedly belonged to the Air France Flight 447, which went
missing in the early hours of Monday, Brazil's Defense Minister Nelson
Jobim said Tuesday afternoon.
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva voiced his confidence on Tuesday that the search
teams will manage to find the bodies of the likely victims of the Air
France Flight 447, which disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean in the early
hours of Monday, local media reported.
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 2 (Xinhua) -- The three-mile (five
kilometers) path of wreckage found in the Atlantic Ocean belongs to an Air
France jet carrying 228 people that was believed to have crashed into the
sea, Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim confirmed on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, June 2 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. Navy P-3C Orion
maritime patrol plane will join international search efforts for survivors
and debris from Air France Flight 447, which was believed to have crashed,
the U.S. Southern Command said Tuesday.
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 2 (Xinhua) -- A Brazilian air force
spokesman said on Tuesday that debris possibly from the missing Air France
plane had been found.
PARIS, June 2 (Xinhua) -- The United States will offer all
help necessary to France in its investigations into what caused the
disappearance of an Air France flight with 228 people on board, U.S.
President Barack Obama told the local media on Tuesday.
PARIS, June 2 (Xinhua) -- A hunt for the Air France jet that
disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean will go on for as long as needed,
government officials said Tuesday.
SHENYANG, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Two Chinese companies said
Tuesday that seven employees were on board the Air France jetliner that
vanished in the Atlantic.
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Several commercial line
pilots who flew over the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday reported having seen
more debris on the area where the missing Air France Flight 447 is
believed to have crashed, according to local daily Folha deSao Paulo.
BRUSSELS, June 2 (Xinhua) -- A second Dutch national has
been confirmed on board the Air France passenger jet that disappeared over
the Atlantic on Monday, Radio Netherlands reported on Tuesday.
BEIJING, June 2 (Xinhua) -- France and Brazil on Monday dispatched military aircraft for a search on a vast Atlantic Ocean area where an Air France jet carrying 228 people may have come down. >>
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 1 (Xinhua) -- The former royalty of Brazil confirmed on Monday that a member of the family was onboard the Air France airliner that went missing off the Brazilian coast Sunday night, local media reported. >>
PARIS, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Air France's chief executive said on Monday that the missing Air France airliner Airbus A330-200 disappeared in the middle of the waters between Brazilian and African coasts with a circumference of scores of nautical miles.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, June 2 (Xinhua) -- A pilot from Brazil's airline TAM may have spotted a burning piece of wreckage of the Air France passenger plane that disappeared early Monday morning. >>
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 1 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian government said on Monday that three Air Force planes and three Navy ships are in route to take part on the search effort for the Air France Flight 447, some 1,100 kilometers off the coast of the Brazilian city of Natal in the country's northeastern region. >>
BRASILIA, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Monday that he "shares the pain of the relatives and friends of the victims" from the flight 447 of Air France that disappeared on Sunday night when it was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. >>
BRUSSELS, June 1 (Xinhua) -- European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso expressed express solidarity and sympathy over an accident of an Air France aircraft in a message sent respectively on Monday to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. >> | 
