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.
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Debris of the missing Air France flight
447, recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, arrives at Recife's port June 14,
2009. An Air France Airbus 330 crashed into the sea on June 1 en route
from Brazil to Paris, killing all 228 aboard.
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Six more bodies had been picked up at sea by the
French navy ship Mistral, Brazilian military spokesman general Ramon Cardoso
said at a press conference in Recife.
The Brazilian side had revised the number of
recovered corpses from previously declared 44 to 43 before the new findings.
Cardoso said the search will continue until there is
no hope to recover any more remains of the victims.
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Debris of the missing Air France flight
447, recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, arrives at Recife's port June 14,
2009. An Air France Airbus 330 crashed into the sea on June 1 en route
from Brazil to Paris, killing all 228 aboard. （Xinhua/Reuters
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Meanwhile, no progress was made on forensic analysis
in Recife, as none of the bodies sent there has been identified so far. The
identification work might stretch for two months, said French ambassador to
Brazil Pierre-Jean Vandoorne.
The Air France Flight 447 went down over the Atlantic
Ocean on the night from May 31 to June 1 with 228 people on board.
French military steps up search for
bodies, black boxes of crashed
plane
PARIS, June 11 (Xinhua) -- A
French nuclear-powered submarine joined the search on Wednesday for the flight
data and cabin voice recorders of the Air France passenger plane that crashed
into the Atlantic Ocean last week, the military said.
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Debris from the missing Air France
flight 447 is seen at the Air Force base in Recife June 12, 2009. The Air
France Airbus A330 crashed into the sea on June 1 en route from Brazil to
Paris, killing all 228 aboard.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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The submarine, Emeraude, began searching for the
recorders, commonly known as black boxes, in an initial zone of about 36 sq km.
It will then move to other areas in the following days. No deadline has been set
for the search. Full story
Forensic analysis of Air France Flight
447's bodies indicates plane did not blow up
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 12 (Xinhua) -- The
preliminary forensic analysis made in some of the recover bodies of Flight 447's
passengers shows that they did not suffer any burns, said local daily O Globo
published on Friday.
According to the daily, the absence of
burns indicates that the Air France Airbus did not explode, and reinforces the
theory that the plane disintegrated in the air. The daily also stated that most
bodies were found without clothes, which could have been taken by the wind
during the fall. Full story
Bad weather hampers body recovery at
Air France plane crash site
BRASILIA, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Bad weather has prevented
search crews from recovering more bodies at the Atlantic Ocean crash site of Air
France Flight 447, which fell down on May 31, Brazil's Air Force said Wednesday.
Heavy rains in Fernando de Noronha islands near the
crash site have been making it difficult for aircraft to work, Lieutenant
Colonel Ramon Cardoso said. Full story
French nuclear submarine to hunt for
black boxes of crashed
plane
PARIS, June 10 (Xinhua)
-- A French nuclear-powered submarine will start searching on Wednesday for the
flight data and cabin voice recorders of an Air France plane that crashed
into the Atlantic Ocean last week, the military said.
The submarine Emeraude will search for the recorders,
more commonly known as the plane's black boxes, in the morning in an initial
search zone of 36 kilometers by 36, Christophe Prazuck, a spokesman for the
military said. Full story
