2009年6月5日星期五

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Brazil crews struggle to gather plane wreckage (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 06:23 PM PDT

Air France employees stand outside the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris during an ecumenical church service on June 3, 2009 for relatives and families of the passengers of Air France's flight 447 that vanished Monday over the Atlantic Ocean. REUTERS/Bob Edme/PoolReuters - Search crews in the Atlantic struggled on Friday to recover wreckage from an Air France flight as hopes dwindled of finding bodies from a crash possibly caused by pilots acting on flawed speed readings.


No wreckage found from doomed Air France plane (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 04:59 PM PDT

In this June 3, 2009 image released Friday June 5, 2009 by French marine institute Ifremer, the French sea research vessel, The Pourquoi Pas, is seen at an undisclosed location. The Pourquoi Pas, carrying manned and unmanned submarines, is heading from the Azores and will be in the search zone of the missing AF 447 Air France plane by June 12 . (AP Photo/Olivier Dugornay/Ifremer/HO)  MANDATORY CREDIT IFREMERAP - Days after Air France Flight 447 vanished, an intensive international effort has failed to recover any confirmed wreckage and concern grew Friday about whether searchers were even looking in the right place.


Experts mull over lessons from plane crash (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 02:16 PM PDT

AP - The mysterious disappearance of an Air France jet this week while flying over the Atlantic in fierce thunderstorms is stirring a debate about whether new technologies and procedures are needed to prevent similar tragedies in the future.

Brazil plane wreckage 'not from Airbus' (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 01:37 AM PDT

Relatives of a passenger aboard ill-fated Air France Flight 447, pray during a mass at the Our Lady of Carmo Cathedral in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. An intensive air and sea operation on Friday failed to recover any debris from an Air France jet that came down in the Atlantic early this week with 228 people on board, Brazilian air force officials said.(AFP/Antonio Scorza)AFP - The mystery surrounding the crash of an Air France plane off the coast of Brazil deepened after Brazilian officials said items they had pulled from the sea were not in fact debris from the downed Airbus.


Speed an issue in Air France crash, search goes on (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 06:34 PM PDT

A slick assumed to be from the fuel of Air France flight AF447 is seen from the window of a Brazilian Air Force plane patrolling the crash area in the open Atlantic Ocean some 745 miles northeast of Recife June 3, 2009. REUTERS/Brazilian Air Force/HandoutReuters - Brazilian search teams on Thursday scoured choppy Atlantic waters for remains of a crashed Air France jet after the first debris retrieved by helicopter turned out to be trash.


No sign of debris yet at jet crash site: Brazil (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 05:19 PM PDT

Handout picture from Brazil's Navy shows an Air Force plane searching for debris of Air France flight 447. Red-faced Brazilian officials said debris they thought was from the Air France crash in the Atlantic was in fact sea AFP - Brazilian officials said late they have so far only recovered sea "trash" from a zone in the Atlantic where an Air France jet came down, and not aircraft debris as originally thought.


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