2009年6月3日星期三

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Air France jet likely broke apart above ocean (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 06:12 PM PDT

A Brazilian air force helicopter departs from a military base during search operations for a missing Air France jet in Natal, Wednesday, June 3, 2009.  Brazil's military found a 3-mile (5-kilometer) path of wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean, confirming that the jet carrying 228 people crashed in the sea, according to Defense Minister Nelson Jobim. The debris was spotted Tuesday in the ocean about 400 miles (640 kilometers) northeast of the Fernando de Noronha islands off Brazil's northern coast. (AP Photo/Ricardo Moraes)AP - Military planes located new debris from Air France Flight 447 Wednesday while investigators focused on a nightmarish ordeal in which the jetliner broke up over the Atlantic as it flew through a violent storm.


A summary of the final messages from Flight 447 (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 03:32 PM PDT

AP - French and Brazilian officials have described a "burst" of messages from Flight 447 just before it disappeared.

Waters may prevent recovery of flight recorders (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 03:06 PM PDT

In this photo released by Brazil's Defense Ministry, Brazilian military search for debris from an Air France jet over the Atlantic Ocean, Wednesday, June 3, 2009.  A 23-foot (seven-meter) chunk of plane and a 12-mile-long (20-kilometer-long) oil slick were found early Wednesday, Brazilian air force spokesman Col. Jorge Amaral said. Rescuers have still found no signs of life. The new debris was discovered about 90 kilometers (55 miles) south where searchers a day earlier found an airplane seat, a fuel slick, an orange lifevest and pieces of white debris. (AP Photo/Brazil Defense Ministry)AP - The flight recorders from Air France Flight 447 could be scattered nearly anywhere across a vast undersea mountain range that lies as much as four miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.


Equatorial region known for massive storms (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 02:37 PM PDT

The picture released by the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 shows the area of the crash site on an infrared satellite image of clouds above the Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Brazil at the time when the plane, carrying 228 people, lost contact with ground controllers after leaving Rio de Janeiro for Paris on Sunday night.  The reason for the crash remained unclear, with fierce thunderstorms, lightning or a catastrophic combination of causes as possible theories. (AP Photo/Eumetsat)AP - Air France Flight 447 vanished in a zone of ferocious weather over the Atlantic Ocean known as the birthplace of some of the world's strongest storms — just as the plane was encountering a 400-mile-long maze of lightning, hail, driving rain and fierce 100-mph updrafts.


Brazil says Air France plane likely did not explode (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 02:34 PM PDT

Brazilian Air Force officers look for signs of Air France flight AF447 as they patrol the crash area in the open Atlantic Ocean some 1,200 km northeast of Recife, June 2, 2009. REUTERS/Brazilian Air Force/HandoutReuters - The presence of fuel stains in the ocean could rule out the possibility there was an explosion on the Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic, Brazil's Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said on Wednesday.


List of passengers aboard lost Air France flight (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 02:13 PM PDT

Relatives and friends of Air France flight AF447 passengers congregate in the lobby of the Windsor Hotel where support is being offered to them, in Rio de Janeiro June 2, 2009. REUTERS/Fernando Soutello-AGIFAP - A list of the named crew and passengers aboard Air France Flight 447, which crashed in the Atlantic Ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris carrying 228 people:


Grieving families mourn Air France crash victims (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 10:03 AM PDT

Air France employees stand outside the Notre-Dame cathedral, in Paris, Wednesday June 3, 2009,  during an ecumenical church service for relatives and families of the passengers of Air France's flight 447 which vanished Monday over the Atlantic ocean. The reason for the crash remains unclear, with fierce thunderstorms, lightning or a catastrophic combination of causes as possible theories. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, pool)AP - The lilting voices of the Air France choir resounded throughout Notre Dame Cathedral on Wednesday as grieving families and others honored the victims of the flight that disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean.


Captain of Air France Flight 447 was son of pilot (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 09:20 AM PDT

AP - Marc Dubois grew up to be a pilot, just like his dad.

New Air France debris found, crash remains mystery (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 01:13 PM PDT

A Brazilian Bandeirantes plane lands from a search operation over the area where Air France flight AF447 went missing en route from Rio to Paris, at a base in Fernando de Noronha island June 2, 2009. REUTERS/Bruno DomingosReuters - Search crews flying over the Atlantic found debris from a crashed Air France jet spread over more than 90 km (55 miles) of ocean on Wednesday, reinforcing the possibility it broke up in the air.


New Air France debris found, explosion unlikely (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 04:24 PM PDT

Brazilian Air Force officers look for signs of Air France flight AF447 as they patrol the crash area in the open Atlantic Ocean, June 2, 2009. REUTERS/Brazilian Air Force/HandoutReuters - Search crews flying over the Atlantic found debris from a crashed Air France jet spread over more than 55 miles of ocean on Wednesday, reinforcing the possibility it broke up in the air.


Brazil suspends order reuniting boy, American dad (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 08:03 PM PDT

FILE - This March 15, 2009 file photo shows residents protesting against U.S. citizen David Goldman, who is fighting for the custody of his son Sean, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. According to Goldman, in 2004 his then-wife Brazilian Bruna Bianchi took her 4-year-old son on vacation to Brazil with her husband's permission but a few days later she called saying she would not be returning to the U.S. Banner reads in Portuguese 'Sean is Brazilian'. Goldman arrived in Brazil Tuesday, June 2, 2009 after a federal court in Brazil ruled that he can regain custody of his 8-year-old son. The boy's mother took the child to Brazil in 2004 and never returned to the U.S. She divorced Goldman and remarried but died last year. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)AP - A Brazilian supreme court justice on Tuesday suspended a court order granting immediate custody of a 9-year-old boy to his U.S. father, extending a multiyear battle that has reached the highest levels of both the Brazilian and U.S. governments.


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