First piece of flight 447 wreckage recovered
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First piece of flight 447 wreckage recovered
2:47PM Friday Jun 05, 2009
FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil – Brazil’s air force says a helicopter crew recovered the first wreckage from Air France Flight 447.
A structural support piece of the jet about eight feet (2.5 meters) long was fished from the ocean. It was found about 340 miles (550 kilometers) northeast of Brazil’s northern Fernando de Noronha islands.
Also found Thursday around 1 p.m. (1600 GMT, noon EDT) were two buoys.
No bodies or human remains have been spotted.
The helicopter was working off one of the navy ships that reached the debris early Thursday.
The air force released the information in a statement on its website.
-AP