Why is the Brazilian air force website so secretive about the recovery efforts for the Air France plane?”
The recovery of Air France Flight 447’s tail section could provide key clues as to why the airliner with 228 people on board went down in the Atlantic and where best to search for the black boxes, experts said. The tail section includes the vertical stabilizer — which keeps the plane’s nose from swinging back and forth — and the rudder, which generates and controls the side-to-side motion of an aircraft. Brazilian sailors on Monday secure a large section of the tail from Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the Atantic Ocean far off the coast of Brazil after flying into a storm on May 31. Later in the day, crews also recovered the jet’s vertical stabilizer — a key item in finding the cause of the tragedy. All 228 people aboard died, and it’s not clear yet why the plane went down. The data and voice recorders are located in the fuselage near the tail. In a video posted Monday on a Web site, Brazil’s air force revealed that search crews had recovered the vertical stabilizer from th
The first 16 bodies recovered from an Air France jet crash in the Atlantic arrived at this remote Brazilian island on Tuesday ahead of identification, officials said. The remains were recovered on the weekend from the spot the Airbus A330 came down as it was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1. All 228 people on board were killed. A total of at least 28 bodies had been picked up as of early Tuesday, according to Brazilian officials. They were found floating in what one Brazilian navy crewman said was “a sea of debris” 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) off Brazil’s northeast coast. From Fernando de Noronha, the remains were to be flown by plane to the mainland coastal city of Recife, where they were to be identified using DNA samples from relatives and dental records. Interpol is helping with the task, and France is heading the investigation into the crash. Passengers from 32 countries were on the flight. Efforts continued in the Atlantic to retrieve part of the shattered aircraft
