Brazil confirms missing plane debris found

July 18th, 2009 Guyana finds possible debris from Air France crashGEORGETOWN, Guyana — A fisherman in Guyana apparently has found a large piece of a plane that authorities suspect might belong to the Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean, an aviation official said Saturday. The 30-foot-long piece of what appears to be aircraft fuselage washed up on a beach in the South American country this week, said Paula McAdam, deputy director of Guyana's Civil Aviation Authority.

July 9th, 2009 Coast Guard searches Gulf coast for missing planePORT RICHEY, Fla. — The Coast Guard is searching a second day for five people believed to be on a plane that went missing off Florida's Gulf Coast.

July 8th, 2009 Plane with 5 aboard missing off Florida Gulf CoastPORT RICHEY, Fla. — The Coast Guard is searching for five people whose plane went down off Florida's Gulf Coast.

July 7th, 2009 Divers, investigators in Comoros search for planeNAIROBI, Kenya — A Comoran official says little debris and no bodies from the crashed Yemenia Airways plane have been found, but predicts that will change once the exact location of the plane's black boxes are pinpointed. One 12-year-old girl survived by clinging to floating debris for up to 13 hours after the June 30 plane crash, but 152 other passengers and crew are still missing from Flight 626.

June 27th, 2009 RIO DE JANEIRO - The Brazilian air force and navy have ended their search for survivors of Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic nearly four weeks ago, officials announced Saturday. "The mission has been stopped, because it has become impossible to find bodies or debris in the search area," said Lt.

June 5th, 2009 SAO PAULO - The mystery of what happened to Air France flight 447 continues. The Brazilian Air Force said none of the debris they had recovered from the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday belonged to the missing Airbus.

June 5th, 2009 RIO DE JANEIRO - None of the debris recovered during a search for the wreckage of an Air France Airbus 330 that went missing off Brazil's northeast coast belonged to the aircraft, Brazil's Air Force chief said. "We confirm that the objects are not from the wreckage of the plane...

June 5th, 2009 London, June 5 (ANI): Brazilian officials have admitted that debris found floating in the Atlantic, which was believed to be from the Air France crash, is only 'sea trash'.Up to now, no material from the plane has been recovered," The Times quoted Brigadier Cardoso, as saying in the northeastern city of Recife. Items, including a cargo pallet and two buoys, pulled from the ocean early yesterday.

June 3rd, 2009 French confirm sighting of Air France plane debrisFERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil — French officials say debris found in the Atlantic is that of missing Air France Flight 447. French military spokesman Christophe Prazuck says French military planes surveyed the remains initially spotted by Brazilian planes, and determined that the debris "corresponds to this plane." Prazuck says it is time to move to a "naval operation" to collect the remains and then "a submarine one" to try to find the plane's black boxes.

June 3rd, 2009 RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian Defence Minister Nelson Jobim said Tuesday that the authorities are certain they found the debris of the missing Air France passenger plane around midday in the Atlantic Ocean. A Brazilian Air Force (FAB) plane found a "set of fragments" spread over a five-kilometre radius some 640 km off the island Fernando de Noronha, Jobim said.

June 3rd, 2009 PARIS - An investigation into the cause of the Air France disaster was formally opened in France Wednesday as the country began a period of national mourning with a service for the dead in the Notre Dame Cathedral. President Nicolas Sarkozy and other government members will attend the memorial service in Paris later Wednesday at the cathedral.

June 2nd, 2009 SAO PAULO/PARIS - Wreckage has been found in the Atlantic Ocean possibly from the Air France plane that disappeared Monday with 228 people on board, a spokesman for the Brazilian air force said Tuesday. A seat and traces of oil and kerosene were found about 650 km northeast of the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha, air force spokesman Jorge Amaral said in Brasilia.

June 2nd, 2009 Debris possibly from Air France plane foundBRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil's Air Force says it has found airplane seats and other debris floating in the Atlantic Ocean along the path that a missing Air France jet was flying. Air Force spokesman Jorge Amaral says the seats were spotted by search planes early Tuesday morning but that authorities cannot immediately confirm they were from the plane.

June 2nd, 2009 US military joining search for French planeWASHINGTON — The U.S. military is joining the search for survivors and debris from the Air France flight that disappeared after taking off from Brazil.

June 1st, 2009 PARIS - A passenger plane belonging to Air France went missing Monday with 215 people on board, media reports said. The passenger jet, which was bound for Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, lost contact with the control centre shortly after takeoff from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, news agencies reported, quoting a Paris airport spokesperson.