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Debris confirms crash of Air France Flight 447 (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 05:28 PM PDT

Soldiers fuel a Brazilian Air Force plane that is part of a search and rescue mission for the Air France flight 447 in Fernando de Noronha, 350 kms off the coast of Natal, in northeastern Brazil, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. The Air France airplane, carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, ran into a towering wall of thunderstorms and disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean late Sunday local time. Brazilian military planes found a 3-mile (5-kilometer) path of wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean, confirming that an Air France jet carrying 228 people crashed in the sea, Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - An airplane seat, a fuel slick and pieces of white debris scattered over three miles of open ocean marked the site in the mid-Atlantic Tuesday where Air France Flight 447 plunged to its doom, Brazil's defense minister said.


Brazil finds Air France wreckage, all feared dead (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 05:18 PM PDT

Passengers wait at the Air France check-in counter at the Tom Jobim International airport in Rio de Janeiro June 1, 2009. REUTERS/Sergio MoraesReuters - Brazilian military planes found wreckage on Tuesday from an Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people aboard, the airline's worst disaster in its 75-year history.


Brazil confirms site where Air France flight went down (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 04:01 PM PDT

Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim in Rio de Janeiro, during a press conference to announce that the seat and other debris found belong to the missing Air France flight 447 which disappeared on June 1 over the Atlantic while en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. Jobim stated that there is AFP - Brazil confirmed Tuesday that a five-kilometer (three-mile) swath of debris floating in the Atlantic marked the spot where an Air France flight carrying 228 people came down in mysterious circumstances.


Air France flight flew well beyond range of radar (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 03:37 PM PDT

This photo taken Tuesday, June 2, provided by ECPAD, shows French army air crewman aboard an Atlantic Model 2 aircraft, which took off from a French air base in Dakar, Senegal, patroling the presumed site of the crash of a missing Air France flight. France has three military patrol aircrafts flying over the central Atlantic from their base in Senegal and it is sending an AWACS radar plane that should join the operation on Wednesday, said French military spokesman Christophe Prazuck. (AP Photo/ECPAD/French Defense Minister)AP - Before it vanished, Air France Flight 447 was flying hundreds of miles beyond the scope of the nearest radar station, just as scores of commercial flights do every day over the world's oceans.


Debris comes from Air France plane: Brazilian minister (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 02:30 PM PDT

A man reads the front pages of Brazilian newspapers reporting on the Air France passenger jet which disappeared on June 1 over the Atlantic while en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, at a newsstand in Rio de Janeiro. There is AFP - Brazil's government confirmed late Tuesday that debris spotted by aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean came from an Air France flight carrying 228 people that disappeared the day before.


Air France crash leaves global trail of victims (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 02:28 PM PDT

AP - Three young Irish doctors — one a Riverdance performer — returning from a vacation to Brazil. An American geologist and his wife headed to Europe for work and some R&R. An 11-year-old boy traveling alone on his way back to an English boarding school.

List of passengers aboard lost Air France flight (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 12:02 PM PDT

AP - A list of the named passengers aboard Air France Flight 447, which disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris carrying 228 people:

US military joining search for French plane (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 11:43 AM PDT

AP - The U.S. military is joining the search for survivors and debris from the Air France flight that disappeared after taking off from Brazil.

Brazilian air force finds plane debris: official (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 06:14 AM PDT

Picture released by the ECPAD (The French Defence communication and audiovisual production agency) of a member of the French military checking with binoculars the Atlantic ocean off Cape Verde, from a French reconnaissance Breguet Atlantic II. Search aircraft found debris on Tuesday believed to be from an Air France flight that disappeared over the Atlantic with 228 people on board.(AFP/ECPAD)AFP - Brazilian air force aircraft searching the Atlantic Ocean Tuesday for a missing Air France flight that had been carrying 228 people have found debris from a plane, an air force spokesman said.


Brazil sights possible plane wreckage in Atlantic (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 05:48 AM PDT

Reuters - Brazilian military planes have sighted wreckage 400 miles off the South American country's northern coast that could be part of an Air France plane that went missing on Sunday night, Brazil's air force said on Tuesday.

Investigators ponder what happened to Air France (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 11:39 PM PDT

A man, looking for information on the Airfrance flight 447 that was reported missing on its way between Rio de Janeiro and Paris, is escorted by airport employees to a private room at Tom Jobim airport  in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, June 01, 2009.  The jet carrying 228 people, lost contact with air traffic controllers after running into lightning and strong thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean, officials said Monday. Brazil began a search mission off its northeastern coast. (AP Photo/ Ricardo Moraes) ¶AP - Was Air France Flight 447 downed by wind and hail from towering thunderheads? By lightning? Or by a catastrophic combination of factors?


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