AIR FRANCE FLIGHT - AF447 SEARCH UPDATES

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• Flight AF 447 left Rio at 1900 local time (2200 GMT) on Sunday
• Airbus A330-200 carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew
• Contact lost 0130 GMT
• Missed scheduled landing at 1110 local time (0910 GMT) in Paris

The hunt for clues as to the fate of the Air France plane lost over the Atlantic has intensified with the arrival of the first Brazilian navy vessel. French officials have said that they may never find the black box data recorders from flight AF447, which could be under 3,700m of water. Aerial searches have not reported bodies but Brazil's air force has seen more, and larger, debris. The jet was carrying 228 people from Rio to Paris when it was lost on Monday. Several aircrafts have now been deployed to the area, about 1,100km northeast of the Brazilian coast.
The oil debris found in the sea believed to be from the missing plane













Aerial view of the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, northeast of Brazil. The flight had last emitted a series of failure signals near this island, around which search missions are concentrated.








A Brazilian search team on the mission














The kins of the bereaved still donot know what to believe or hope for ! !