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Missing jet: French warship finds body
Paris (AFP) June 7, 2009 A French warship hunting for the wreck of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic with the loss of 228 people has found a body, the military said Sunday. Earlier, Brazilian crews on five more ships found five other bodies from flight AF 447 from Rio to Paris. "The frigate Ventouse recovered a body and debris that could have come from a plane," said Captain Christophe Prazuck, spokesman for the French military. "Alerted at the start of the week, the ship arrived off Brazil in the middle of the day and was placed under the authority of the Brazilians, who are coordinating the search," he said. "The Panther helicopter carried on board took off immediately and spotted the body and the debris, which was picked up by the ship," he added. A French nuclear sub, the Emeraude, is due to arrive on Wednesday to hunt for the plane's black box flight recorders. Brazil has nine surveillance planes and five ships in the hunt and the United States has a plane. The two black box flight data recorders -- which may hold the clues that explain the disaster -- will only emit a homing signal for around a month. "We'll need a real stroke of luck since we don't know the exact site of the crash, but it's worth a try," said Prazuck. If the Emeraude, a nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarine, can locate the black boxes it will pass on the recovery task to a mini-submarine being taken to the area by a French scientific research ship, the Pourquoi Pas (Why Not).
Brazilian air force spots more debris in Air France crash zone "As well as the bodies there are various remains of the aircraft," air force spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Henry Munhoz told reporters in the northeastern city of Recife. "Plane seats, part of the wing (and) various other items (were) localized," Munhoz said. The two male bodies recovered by the Brazilian navy in the zone earlier Saturday were being taken by ship to Brazil's Fernando de Noronha archipelago, where they would be catalogued and flown to Recife, he said. "Recife will be the final destination for the bodies as well as the debris from the aircraft," Munhoz said. He said that "details of the (personal) items collected will be divulged to the relatives and only to the relatives." The spokesman added that "the state of the bodies will not be divulged." Share This Article With Planet Earth
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