PARIS, June 25 (Xinhua) -- The bodies of the captain
and a flight attendant of an Air France airliner crashed into the Atlantic on
June 1 have been identified, Air France said Thursday.
A handout picture from the Brazilian
Navy released on June 22, 2009 shows Brazilian Navy warships searching for
debris from Air France Airbus A330 out of the Atlantic Ocean. Brazilian
Navy announced on Monday that they found more debris of the crashed Air
France Airbus A330. (Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>>
The two crew members of Flight 447, which were among
50 bodies recovered from the ocean by the rescue teams, "have been identified to
date: the captain and a steward," Air France said in a statement.
But the airline didn't release their names.
An Air France Airbus A330 plane plunged into the
Atlantic some 1,200 km off the Brazilian coastline on a flight from Rio de
Janeiro to Paris on June 1. All 228 people of 32 nationalities on board died.
The reason of the crash still remains unknown.
According to the French air accident authority, investigators have not yet found
the flight recorders of the airliner.
BEIJING, June 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Signals detected by the
French navy were not coming from the black boxes of the crashed Air France
Flight 447, a French official said Tuesday, ruling out earlier reports of the
jetliner's sounds in the French media.
Earlier, the French publication Le Monde reported
that beacon signals emitted by the black boxes frequently from the day of the
crash on June 1 were picked up by French ships and the mini submarine Nautile
has been launched to investigate the signal.
The aide to France's top transport official,
Jean-Louis Borloo, told The Associated Press that the "black boxes have not been
detected." Full story
BRASILIA, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian authorities
said Sunday that 11 bodies have been identified from the 50 retrieved from the
Air France Flight 447 which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1.
Ten bodies were identified as Brazilian, including
five men and five women, and another one as a foreign male, said a statement
issued by a task force made up of Brazil's federal police and the Public Safety
Department of the northeastern state of Pernambuco. Full story
BRASILIA, June 19 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian Navy said on
Friday that more debris and passenger luggages from the crashed Air France
airliner have been recovered. Full story
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
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
