Tentative timeline of disappearance of Air France jet en route from Rio to Paris

October 11th, 2009 French author: New info on Ben Barka disappearancePARIS — A French author says he has police documents that may help shed light on the mysterious disappearance in Paris nearly 45 years ago of Moroccan opposition figure Mehdi Ben Barka. Writer Georges Fleury, who is also a former member of the French Navy's special forces, provided Sunday newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche with what he says is a long-secret police dossier suggesting that officials looked into whether Ben Barka's body may have been burned in the Paris suburbs.

August 27th, 2009 Brazilians want investigation of Air France crashSAO PAULO — Relatives of Brazilian passengers who perished on an Air France jetliner that crashed over the Atlantic Ocean are demanding a criminal investigation. Government news service Agencia Brasil says the association representing the victims' relatives filed a petition with the federal attorney general's office requesting "an investigation against the possible culprits of the accident." Air France Flight 447 crashed June 1 en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro, killing all 228 people on board.

August 14th, 2009 Brazil identifies last body in Air France crashSAO PAULO — Brazilian authorities say they have used DNA to identify the last body found from the Air France jet crash in the mid-Atlantic that killed 228 people. Officials say the 50th body recovered was that of a non-Brazilian man, but they have not revealed his nationality or his identity.

July 30th, 2009 Air France Airbus hits building in BrazzavilleBRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo — An Air France Airbus 330 carrying 168 passengers hit a building after landing in Congo's capital, but no one was hurt, an aviation official said Thursday. Emile Ouosso, minister of transportation and civil aviation, said the Airbus 330 landed at Brazzaville's Maya-Maya airport on Wednesday night and that one of its wings then hit a building.

July 30th, 2009 Air France plane hits Congo building, no one hurtBRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo — A transport official says an Air France Airbus 330 hit a building after landing in the capital of Congo but no one was hurt. Emile Ouosso, minister of transportation and civil aviation, says the Airbus 330 landed at Brazzaville's Maya-Maya airport on Wednesday night and one of its wings then hit a building.

July 28th, 2009 Flight 'incident' puts speed sensors in spotlightPARIS — The pilot of an Air France plane flying from Rome to Paris this month spent a minute without information on the speed of the aircraft, which was equipped with new generation speed sensors installed after the June crash of another flight, the newspaper Le Figaro reported in an article for its Thursday edition. The report said the lives of passengers on the July 13 flight were not in danger.

July 2nd, 2009 French: Air France Flight 447 fell intact into seaLE BOURGET, France — A French investigator says Air France Flight 447 did not break up in flight but plunged vertically into the Atlantic Ocean. Alain Bouillard, leading the investigation into the June 1 crash for the French accident investigation agency BEA, also says life vests found among the wreckage of the plane were not inflated.

June 22nd, 2009 SAO PAOLO - Brazilian authorities have identified 11 victims, three weeks after an Air France jet carrying 228 people crashed on its way to France, a news report said. The forensics department in the port town Recife identified 10 Brazilians, among them five women, and one foreigner, whose bodies were among the 50 recovered after the Airbus A330 crashed June 1 off Brazil's coast.

June 5th, 2009 Prosecutor's office opens Airbus plane probePARIS — The Paris prosecutor's office says it has opened a manslaughter probe in the crash of Air France flight 447, a routine step by authorities in the deaths of French citizens overseas. The prosecutor's office said Friday it opened the case because some of the victims lived in Paris.

June 4th, 2009 French say Air France plane speed not knownPARIS — The French agency investigating the crash of the Air France jet over the Atlantic says automatic messages received from the plane have failed to show exactly how fast the aircraft was flying. The Accident Investigation Agency says only two findings have been established.

June 3rd, 2009 Air France: False bomb threat in Buenos AiresPARIS — An Air France spokesman says the airline received a bomb threat for a flight from Buenos Aires to Paris on May 27, but that warning proved to be false. Spokesman Nicolas Petteau said Wednesday that an Air France agency in Buenos Aires received an anonymous phone call threatening Flight 415.

June 3rd, 2009 Organization of the Air France crash probeThe French accident investigation agency, known by its French acronym BEA, is in charge of the inquiry into what happened to Air France Flight 447, which crashed with 228 aboard en route from Rio to Paris. The man in charge of the investigation, Alain Bouillard, led the probe into the 2000 crash of the Concorde supersonic jet.

June 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday condoled the loss of lives in the Air France jetliner tragedy and in separate letters to President Nikolas Sarkozy of France and President Lula da Silva of Brazil expressed grief over the tragedy. I am deeply distressed to hear about the tragedy that has struck Air France's Flight AF 447 which was on its way from Brazil to France.

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.

June 1st, 2009 PARIS - Air France has lost contact with a jetliner carrying 228 people. The flight bound from Rio de Janeiro to Paris went missing over the Atlantic Ocean.