Air France jet likely broke apart above ocean (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2009 06:12 PM PDT 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 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 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 Reuters - 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 AP - 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 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 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. |