http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/06/200966165732533867.html
UPDATED ON:
Saturday, June 06, 2009
20:32 Mecca time, 17:32 GMT
Bodies found from missing jet
The bodies of two men and debris from an Air France flight that crashed
into the Atlantic earlier this week have been found, a Brazilian air force
spokesman has said.
Jorge Amaral told reporters in the northeastern city of Recife that the
first bodies were found early on Saturday morning.
"We confirm the recovery from the water, debris and bodies from the Air
France plane," Colonel Amaral said.
Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reported that the bodies had been
positively identified by the Brazilian navy and that pieces of luggage had also
been recovered containing boarding stubs.
The first item recovered was a seat from the plane, at 1114 GMT. The
first body was then found and retrieved by a navy vessel at 1210 GMT.
The area where the bodies were recovered is about 1,200km off the coast
of Brazil.
Flight AF 447 disappeared from radar en route from Rio de Janiero to
Paris on Monday with 228 people on board.
Elizondo said: "Two male bodies have been retrieved. They are now on a
navy cutter boat. They are sending two more cutters to the area to search for
any more bodies that might be in the general vicinity.
"It will probably be a day until the navy cutter can get back to land."
Earlier finds on Thursday had turned out not to be from the plane.
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