Bodies from missing AF447 found

06 june 2009 Two male bodies and pieces of wreckage belonging to Flight 447 were found today in the Atlantic waters - Brazilians authorities reported. One of the bodies was confirmed to have been a passenger of the Air France crashed plane. Besides the corpses, the search teams found a backpack containing a laptop, a briefcase with a plane ticket authenticated as booked with Air France and also an oxygen mask. The discovered items were spotted about 680 km north of the Fernando de Noronha islands. The site of the crash was not located yet as the oceanic stream might have drifted the debris during the 6 day search.
07 June 2009 updates: Total number of AF447 bodies raised to five. Three more bodies from the Air France crash have been recovered from Atlantic raising the toll to five. The bodies along with many other items from Flight 447 were floating in water of 6000 to 8000 meters deep. The latest 3 were probably badly damaged such that their sex was not identified yet.
08 June 2009 updates: 16 bodies recovered from Air France AF447 crashed plane. Twelve more bodies have been picked up from the crash of the Air France A330 airliner raising the toll to seventeen. Nine bodies out of 16 were discovered by the Brazilian naval and air forces and the rest of seven were traced by a French ship joining the search operation. The area of the search missions covered 200000 square km so far, an area almost as big as the east european country of Romania (237500 square km). The AF 447 crash site becomes more and more localized since the bodies were spotted just 70 km away from where the plane sent out the 24 warning messages indicating electrical disturbances and cabin pressure loss. (Air France Flight AF447 bodies search updates).

09 June 2009 updates: Total number of found bodies from last week Air France crash reached 24. Eight more bodies have been pulled out of the water today - Brazilian oficials said. a very important item - a large tail section of the Airbus A330 - has been also recovered (see upper-left picture) helping consistently the investigation and narrowing the search for the black boxes. So far, the Air France crash investigation is focussed on air speed readings.

10 June 2009 updates: 17 more corpses were taken out of the ocean bringing the overall number of recovered bodies to 41. There are 187 more to be found. First corpse and some debris were brounght to land by a helicopter of Brazialian air force and they will be sent to coastal city of Recife Wednesday for identification. With black boxes still missing the investigators are focussing on the probability that the air speed Pitot tubes provided wrong indication to the plane's computers during the storm.