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Air France Pilot's Body Recovered

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filed under: Plane Accidents, World News

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PARIS (June 25) - Search crews in the mid-Atlantic have retrieved the bodies of the chief pilot of Flight 447 and a flight attendant, Air France said Thursday.

The two are among 50 bodies pulled out of the ocean in the international search for remains of the 228 victims and wreckage of the May 31 crash.

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Air France, in a statement on its Web site, said the pilot and male flight attendant have been identified but did not release their names. A pilots' union named the flight captain as Frenchman Marc Dubois.

Earlier this week the international police agency Interpol said 11 of the 50 bodies retrieved had been identified: eight Brazilians, one with joint Brazilian-German citizenship, one Brazilian-Swiss and a Briton.

On Wednesday Germany's Foreign Ministry said three Germans — two men from Bavaria and a woman from Hamburg — have been identified. The ministry did not release their names.

The Airbus A330 plane came down in the Atlantic after running into thunderstorms en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. The Brazilian military has led the search and recovery efforts for bodies and debris, while the French are in charge of investigating the crash and the hunt for the flight recorders, or black boxes.

The cause of the crash is unclear. The plane's two black boxes could be key to determining what happened.

But the boxes will only continue to emit signals for a few more days. They send out an electronic tapping sound that can be heard up to 1.25 miles (2 kilometers) away.

French officials said this week that military ships searching for the wreckage have detected sounds in the Atlantic depths but they are not from the flight recorders.

Two French-chartered ships are trolling a search area with a radius of 50 miles (80 kilometers), pulling U.S. Navy underwater listening devices attached to 19,700 feet (6,000 meters) of cable. A French submarine is also searching.

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2009-06-25 07:58:36

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Linnell5

04:31 PMJun 25 2009

Flodur2 writes:"Where's the Black Box?" ******************** Better yet, where was God?

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ALEXCHIP192

04:28 PMJun 25 2009

Huummm, Good question. Whales farting?

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HARRYLWHEELER

04:27 PMJun 25 2009

You have to figure at this point, the odds of finding those recorders are very poor. Especially in light of the fact that the plane came apart in midair. The tail section, where those thins are, could be anywhere, and the ocean is a big place. As a pilot, I certainly hope they have success. We really would like to know more about the accident, but at this point, I think the big picture is pretty clear, and the recorders would most likely only confirm what we already know.

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Flodur2

04:26 PMJun 25 2009

Where's the Black Box?

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HARRYLWHEELER

04:22 PMJun 25 2009

I haven't heard anymore about that. It was a rather obtuse statement. I couldn't quite figure out why they even included it in the article.

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Johndpieper

04:18 PMJun 25 2009

Has the Navy been able to confirm what the pinging noise was? They know it's not from the recorders, but have they said what they think it is?

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HARRYLWHEELER

04:16 PMJun 25 2009

Johndpieper ..John, you are absolutely correct. Like you, I tend to ignore them. Once in a while though, they say something so funny or outrageous that I can't help offering up a little adult ridicule. You gotta figure their lives must have been pretty miserable to this point. And you know, if bitching at me helps them feel more secure somehow, I guess I have to look at it like I've done a good thing.

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Linnell5

04:14 PMJun 25 2009

Johndpieper writes: "Lennell5,Look at my comment four or five comments below this one." ******************** I read the post. And your point was? By the way, did they ever recover Gilligan and the Skipper?

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Paskulo

04:13 PMJun 25 2009

Flying on board a French-built commercial airliner, flown by French pilots, going 500 knots at 35,000 feet into a squall line of severe thunderstorms, is sheer suicide.

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Johndpieper

04:12 PMJun 25 2009

Lennell5,Look at my comment four or five comments below this one.

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