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Agence France-Presse, Saturday June 27, 2009, Recife (Brazil)

Brazil's military has said it had ended its search for more bodies and debris from an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic nearly four weeks ago. The 26-day operation, which also had the help of French vessels and French, Spanish and US aircraft, recovered 51 bodies of the 228 people who were on board the Airbus A330 that came down on June 1, air force spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Henry Munhoz told reporters late on Friday.

AF447 black boxes located

Asoociated Press, Tuesday June 23, 2009, Paris

French military ships have detected a signal from the black boxes of Flight 447 in the Atlantic depths, newspaper Le Monde reported on Tuesday. The report says a mini research submarine, the Nautile, dived on Monday to search for the boxes based on a "very weak signal" from the flight recorders picked up by the French ships. The report on Le Monde's website on Tuesday gives no source or other details.

Air France disaster: 11 bodies identified

Agence France Presse, Monday June 22, 2009, Sao Paulo (Brazil)

Eleven of the 50 bodies recovered from an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic three weeks ago have been identified by fingerprints and dental records, Brazilian officials have said.

AF447 crash: Victims’ kin to get $24,000

Press Trust of India, Sunday June 21, 2009, London

Air France will pay families about $24,500 in initial compensation for each victim of the crash of Flight 447 this month even as investigators are yet to solve the mystery of what brought the jet down. So far, Air France has been in touch with about 1,800 relatives of the people who died when the Airbus A330 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, chief executive Paul-Henri Gourgeon told France's RTL radio.

AF447 broke en route?

Associated Press, Thursday June 18, 2009, Paris

Latest investigations into the Air France crash reveal one of the worst situations ever known in an accident. Autopsies have revealed fractures in the legs, hips and arms of Air France disaster victims. Injuries that - coupled with the large pieces of wreckage pulled from the Atlantic - strongly suggest the plane broke up in the air, experts said on Wednesday.

AF447 debris displayed for 1st time

Associated Press, Saturday June 13, 2009, Recife

For the first time the debris of the Air France jet were displayed, even as military ships and planes struggled in worsening weather to find more bodies and debris from the plane. Authorities laid out some of the recovered debris out for media on Friday, at a hangar at the Brazilian Air Base Cindacta lll, next to Recife airport.

Flight 447 black box search to begin

Agence France-Presse, Wednesday June 10, 2009, Paris

A French nuclear submarine arrived off Brazil on Wednesday to start hunting for the black box flight recorders from Air France Flight 447 which crashed into the Atlantic last week.

Old sensors behind AF447 crash?

Noopur Tiwari, Wednesday June 10, 2009, Paris

The French Pilot's union SNPL confirmed that flight AF 447, an Airbus 330 was fitted with older speed sensors that were known to have encountered problems of icing on other flights leading to incorrect air speeds.

Faulty speed sensors caused crash?

NDTV Correspondent, Tuesday June 9, 2009, Paris

After reports that faulty airspeed sensors may have contributed to the crash of Air France Flight 477, there are reports that the airline has pledged to replace two of every three airspeed sensors on its fleet of A330 and A340 aircraft.

What really happened to Air France?

Vishnu Som, Tuesday June 9, 2009, Paris, New Delhi

More inferences seem to suggest what really happened to Air France. Nine days after an Air France jetliner crashed into the Atlantic on a flight between Rio De Janeiro and Paris there are indicators that faulty airspeed indicators may have caused the accident in which more than 200 people lost their lives.