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Air France crash
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Hercules C-130 crew search in the Atlantic Ocean for survivors. Search crews on Saturday found the first bodies from the crashed flight. -- PHOTO: BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->RECIFE (Brazil) / PARIS - BRAZILIAN search crews on Saturday retrieved the first bodies from a crashed Air France flight in the Atlantic, and investigators said faulty speed readings had been found on the same type of jets.
Navy ships found the bodies of two men and debris including a blue seat with a serial number matching Air France Flight 447, a rucksack containing a vaccination card, and a briefcase with an Air France ticket inside, rescue officials said.
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Air France later issued a statement saying it had begun changing airspeed sensors on Airbus long-haul aircraft due to icing fears five weeks before the crash, but only after failing to agree on a fix with Airbus.
Investigators are considering the possibility that the speed sensors on Flight 447 may have iced up, resulting in faulty readings that caused the pilots to set the plane at a dangerous speed as it passed thunderstorms.
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>'This morning at 8.14 a.m., we confirmed the rescue from the water of pieces and bodies that belonged to the Air France flight,' air force spokesman Jorge Amaral told reporters in the northeastern Brazilian city of Recife.
Brazilian air force planes and navy ships have been scouring a swathe of the Atlantic about 1,100 km northeast of Brazil's coast since the Airbus A330-200 plane disappeared on Monday, killing all 228 people on board.
The crash of the flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris was the world's deadliest air disaster since 2001 and the worst in Air France's 75-year history.
Rescuers, who said that only family members will be informed of the identity of the corpses, believe many bodies could have sunk or been devoured by sharks.
Searchers previously had retrieved debris from the ocean that turned out to be unrelated to the crash.
French investigators trying to establish the cause of the crash said on Saturday that Airbus had detected faulty speed readings on its A330 jets before last week and had recommended that clients replace a sensor. -- REUTERS <!-- end of for each --><!-- vbbintegration : start --><!-- vbbintegration : end --><!-- dennis change request 20070424 : start --><!---Google ad - Start : Sun, 7 Jun 2009 09:11:22:205---><!-- AdSpace STI Google ad tag --><SCRIPT language=JavaScript1.1 src="http://ads.asia1.com.sg/js.ng/site=tsti&pagepos=20&size=10X10"> </SCRIPT>
Air France crash
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Hercules C-130 crew search in the Atlantic Ocean for survivors. Search crews on Saturday found the first bodies from the crashed flight. -- PHOTO: BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->RECIFE (Brazil) / PARIS - BRAZILIAN search crews on Saturday retrieved the first bodies from a crashed Air France flight in the Atlantic, and investigators said faulty speed readings had been found on the same type of jets.
Navy ships found the bodies of two men and debris including a blue seat with a serial number matching Air France Flight 447, a rucksack containing a vaccination card, and a briefcase with an Air France ticket inside, rescue officials said.
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Air France later issued a statement saying it had begun changing airspeed sensors on Airbus long-haul aircraft due to icing fears five weeks before the crash, but only after failing to agree on a fix with Airbus.
Investigators are considering the possibility that the speed sensors on Flight 447 may have iced up, resulting in faulty readings that caused the pilots to set the plane at a dangerous speed as it passed thunderstorms.
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>'This morning at 8.14 a.m., we confirmed the rescue from the water of pieces and bodies that belonged to the Air France flight,' air force spokesman Jorge Amaral told reporters in the northeastern Brazilian city of Recife.
Brazilian air force planes and navy ships have been scouring a swathe of the Atlantic about 1,100 km northeast of Brazil's coast since the Airbus A330-200 plane disappeared on Monday, killing all 228 people on board.
The crash of the flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris was the world's deadliest air disaster since 2001 and the worst in Air France's 75-year history.
Rescuers, who said that only family members will be informed of the identity of the corpses, believe many bodies could have sunk or been devoured by sharks.
Searchers previously had retrieved debris from the ocean that turned out to be unrelated to the crash.
French investigators trying to establish the cause of the crash said on Saturday that Airbus had detected faulty speed readings on its A330 jets before last week and had recommended that clients replace a sensor. -- REUTERS <!-- end of for each --><!-- vbbintegration : start --><!-- vbbintegration : end --><!-- dennis change request 20070424 : start --><!---Google ad - Start : Sun, 7 Jun 2009 09:11:22:205---><!-- AdSpace STI Google ad tag --><SCRIPT language=JavaScript1.1 src="http://ads.asia1.com.sg/js.ng/site=tsti&pagepos=20&size=10X10"> </SCRIPT>
