Air France bodies found and AF 447 flight ticket

06 June 2009 @ 08:38 pm EDT

The Brazilian Air Force confirmed Saturday evening the recovery of two bodies, a AF 447 flight ticket in a briefcase, and other part of the aircraft's wing among other debris from the Air France crash site.

Members of the Brazilian Air Force bandeirantes relax after 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 6, 2009. The Air France A330-200 was en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris when it suffered a rapid succession of technical problems after hitting heavy turbulence over the Atlantic. Search crews have failed to recover any wreckage so far an...

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The bodies of two men were recovered about 530 miles northeast of Fernando de Noronha Island, the Air Force and Navy said in a statement.

Rescue teams from Brazil and France have been scouring a remote area of the Atlantic since the Air France flight carrying 228 people disappeared as it travelled between Rio de Janeiro and Paris.

The cause of the crash remains unclear; however an automated error message from the flight deck pointing to discrepancies in airspeed data is among a handful of clues available so far to experts investigating last week's crash of an Air France A330 in an Atlantic storm that killed all occupants on board.

The crash of flight 447 is the world's worst commercial air accident since 2001, and Air France's deadliest plane crash.

Air France bodies found and AF 447 flight ticket

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