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.
Captain Guiucemar Tabosa, a navy spokesman, said
three bodies were found Sunday morning and were being transferred to the frigate
Consititucao.
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Brazilian Navy officer Gilcemar Tabosa
(L) and Brazilian Air Force Officer Henry Nunhoz attend a press conference
in Recife, Brazil, on June 7, 2009. Brazil's air force said Sunday it has
recovered three more bodies in the Atlantic Ocean near the site where an
Air France jetliner was believed to have crashed a week ago.
(Xinhua/Brazil News Agency)
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Pilots also spotted a number of additional bodies
from the air and ships were being sent to recover them, he added.
Two bodies were recovered in the ocean on Saturday.
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Brazilian Air Force Officer Henry Nunhoz
addresses a press conference in Recife, Brazil, on June 7, 2009. Brazil's
air force said Sunday it has recovered three more bodies in the Atlantic
Ocean near the site where an Air France jetliner was believed to have
crashed a week ago. (Xinhua/Brazil News Agency)
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Lieutenant Colonel Henry Munhoz, a spokesman for
Brazil's air force, said "hundred of objects" had also been spotted.
There was "no doubt" the recovered debris and bodies
were from the Air France plane, he said.
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A handout picture from the Brazilian Air
Force shows pieces of debris from the crashed Air France Airbus A330
picked out by Brazilian Navy sailors from the Atlantic Ocean, some 745
miles (1,200 km) northeast of Recife. (Xinhua/Brazilian Air
Force/Handout)
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The jetliner, an Airbus 330-200 carrying 216
passengers and 12 crew members, went missing early Monday after losing contact
with the control tower on a flight to Paris from Rio de Janeiro.
French official: Finding black boxes
top priority of crash investigation
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.
Brazilian investigators have found more debris, the
official said. If they proved to belong to the crashed airliner, it will help
further investigations, he said. Full story
Two bodies retrieved from crashed Air
France jetliner
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.
Two male bodies were discovered in the Atlantic Ocean
near the area where the Air France Flight 447 was believed to have crashed, the
Brazilian Air Force announced at a press conference in Recife.
Both bodies were believed to belong to passengers
aboard the crashed jet, Air Force spokesman Col. Jorge Amaral told
reporters. Full story
Search for missing Air France flight
intensified
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.
The plane, named Atlantique Rescue D, is the fourth
French aircraft to join the search effort, which is coordinated by the Brazilian
Air Force from the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, 550 km off Brazil's
northeastern coast, said a joint statement from the Brazilian Navy and Air
Force. Full story
Oil tracks will help determine French plane crash site: Brazilian
Navy
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.
According to Lieutenant-Brigadier Ramom Borges Cardoso, as the oil tracks
move in the same speed as the tide, it is only a matter of multiplying the
current speed by the number of hours since the plane crash. Full story>
French air force in Dakar intensifies
search for debris of missing flight
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.
Laurent Mathou, a commanding officer from the
French Air Base in Dakar, Senegal's capital, told reporters on Wednesday that
the weather conditions had improved around Senegalese waters since Tuesday,
which can help French air force to search for the wreckage of the missing Air
France flight. Full story
French FM to visit Brazil for
ceremonies in honor of plane crash victims
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.
At the request of the Brazilian president,
Kouchner will "travel to Brazil to participate in ceremonies commemorating the
victims to be held in Brazil in the coming days," the government spokesman Luc
Chatel said in his weekly report of the Council of Ministers. Full story
French investigators not hopeful of
finding black box of missing jet
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.
Speaking at the first news conference since the
disappearance of the Air France flight AF447 from Rio to Paris on Monday,
Paul-Louis Arslanian, the director of France's air safety investigation agency,
said he was "not optimistic" that the box would be found in the "deep sea and
mountainous area." Full story
Brazil sends more military forces to
search for missing Air France airliner
BRASILIA, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian air force on
Tuesday announced that they have sent more planes and soldiers to Brazil's
Fernando de Noronha archipelago in the Atlantic to search for the missing Air
France airliner.
The Air France Flight 447, with 228 passengers on
board, left Rio de Janeiro for Paris on Sunday at 7 p.m. (2200 GMT). The plane
lost contact with the air control about three and half hours after its takeoff,
when it was flying over the Atlantic, around 300 km northeast off Brazilian
coastal city Natal. Full story
Air France crash maybe caused by
weather-linked technical failure: expert
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.
Pierre Sparaco, a member of the French Air and Space
Academy, said an accident was more likely to occur when the aircraft was taking
off or landing, compared with the period of cruise aviation. Full story
Cause of French plane disappearance
remains unknown: French PM
PARIS, June 2
(Xinhua) -- French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday it is still
unclear what caused the disappearance of the Air France Airbus.
"No theory is favored at the moment," Fillon told the
French parliament. Full story
Brazil confirms debris belongs to
missing Air France
jet
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.
The debris was found at the open ocean in the
mid-Atlantic, about 400 miles (640 km) northeast of Brazil's Fernando de Noronha
archipelago, Jobim told a press conference in Rio. Full story
Brazilian president: bodies of likely
plane crash victims can be
found
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.
Lula, who is on an official visit to Guatemala, has
been informed by Brazil's Defense Minister Nelson Jobim of the latest
developments of the issue, such as the fact that debris were spotted by Air
Force planes on Tuesday. Full story
U.S. military joins search for French plane
survivors
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.
The aircraft and 21 U.S. crew members arrived in Brazil
earlier in the day from its forward operating location in Comalapa Air Base, El
Salvador, the command said in a statement. Full story
Chinese companies confirm staff onboard missing Air Franch
plane
SHENYANG, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Two Chinese companies said
Tuesday that seven employees were on board the Air France jetliner that vanished
in the Atlantic.
Benxi Iron & Steel (Group) Co. Ltd. said four men and
two women, including a senior manager, were taking the flight to Paris after
business talks with representatives of Australia's BHP Billiton Ltd. and
Brazil's CVRD, said Liu Dahong, vice director of publicity department of the
company based in Liaoning Province, northeast China. Full story
Air France airliner vanishes, chances
of finding survivor very slim
PARIS, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Chances of finding any survivors
are "very slim" as an Air France airliner with 228 people on board vanished over
the Atlantic Ocean, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday. Full story
Special Report: Air France airliner
crashes
