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Air France Flight 447

Air France Flight 447 Events

2009 Jun 8 Brazilian Officials Confirm Retrieval of Air France Flight 447 Vertical Stabilizer
Search crews recovered the vertical stabilizer from the tail section of the Air France jet that went down in the Atlantic, Brazil's air force said yesterday - a key item in finding the ca...
2009 Jun 10 French Submarine Sent to Search for Air France Flight 447 Black Box
Off the coast of Brazil, search teams continue to hunt for the wreckage of Air France Flight 447. They have recovered 41 bodies so far, with 187 still not accounted for. The cause of the ...
2009 Jun 14 Autopsy Reports from Air France Flight 447 Wreckage Seem to Rule Out Terrorism
Autopsies on the bodies recovered after the Airbus disaster in the south Atlantic suggest there was no explosion or fire and therefore no terrorist attack. But two weeks after Air Fran...
2009 Jun 15 Centennial Paris Air Show Opens on Somber Note Amid Continuing Air France Flight 447 Investigations
The world's largest showcase of civilian and military aircraft and equipment, the Paris air show, has opened at Le Bourget Airport. Some 2,000 exhibitors from 48 countries will be exh...
2009 Jun 22 Bodies from Air France crash indentified
Officials in Brazil have identified the first 11 of 50 bodies recovered from the Air France disaster in which 228 people died three weeks ago. The bodies were those of 10 Brazilians an...
2009 Jun 27 Brazil Announces End of Search for Bodies from Air France Flight 447
Brazil has called off its search for more bodies and debris from the Air France flight that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean four weeks ago. Brazil Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mu...
2009 Jul 10 Two Ships End Search for Air France Flight 447 Black Box
The ping signals from the black boxes belonging to doomed Air France Flight 447 began to fade about 10 days ago, and now two of the ships involved in the hunt are leaving. A French nuc...
2011 Apr 3 Phase 4 of Air France 447 Search and Recovery Operation Discovers Large Portions of Plane on Ocean Floor
Unmanned submarines have found the bodies of some passengers who died when an Air France plane crashed off Brazil in 2009, as well as wreckage from the aircraft, the French government said.
2011 May 31 French Gendarmerie Reports More Than 75 Bodies Recoverd from Air France Flight 447 Wreckage
The French gendarmerie says that 75 more bodies have been pulled from the Atlantic Ocean in the past week, nearly two years after the crash of an Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to ...