First debris recovered from Air France crash
News added by Mark Benson under Airline News
Brazil’s air force says a helicopter crew has recovered the first wreckage from Air France Flight 447 about 340 miles northeast of Brazil’s northern Fernando de Noronha islands. According to the Associated Press, a structural support piece of the jet about 8 feet long was fished from the ocean about noon ET today. A crew also retrieved two buoys. No bodies or human remains have been spotted. Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, carrying 228 people, disappeared from radar during a thunderstorm late Sunday.
June 5, 2009
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