US military joining search for French plane; sending surveillance aircraft out Tuesday night

July 1st, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - Hopes dwindled Wednesday for finding any more survivors of the Yemenia Air plane crash off the Comoros Islands, as rescue teams continued to scour the seas for more wreckage. A 14-year old girl is the only known survivor so far of the 153 people on the Airbus A310 from Sana'a, Yemen, which crashed at sea after missing its first attempt at landing in the Comoran capital, Moroni, in bad weather.

June 30th, 2009 Flight 447 black box search goes on past deadlinePARIS — French investigators say the search for the black boxes of Flight 447 is continuing although they are no longer certain to emit signals. The flight's voice and data recorders are guaranteed to emit signals for 30 days after an accident.

June 30th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG/SANAA - A five year-old child was being brought ashore Tuesday, after surviving a Yemen Airways plane crash near the Comoros Islands, officials said. Abdillah Mougni, secretary-general of Comoros republic's transport ministry, said the child, whose gender he did not know, was being brought to shore by boat.

June 27th, 2009 Search ends for bodies from Air France crashSAO PAULO — Brazil has ended the search for more bodies from the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean last month, calling the task "impossible," but the search for the jet's flight recorders will go on. Brazilian and French searchers have recovered large chunks of debris and 51 bodies from Air France Flight 447, which disappeared with 228 people on board late May 31.

June 26th, 2009 Search for Air France recorders likely to go onSAO PAULO — Brazil called off the search for more bodies and debris from the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean but an American officer said the search for the black boxes would likely continue for at least another 16 days. Brazilian and French searchers have recovered large chunks of debris and 51 bodies from Air France Flight 447, which disappeared with 228 people on board late May 31.

June 11th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Police Wednesday began a massive search operation to locate the Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 transport aircraft that went missing Tuesday in the mountainous northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh after two helicopters called off their search due to bad weather, officials said. The cargo plane with 12 defence personnel on board went missing midair Tuesday afternoon after it took from Mechuka in Arunachal Pradesh, bordering China's Tibet region.

June 10th, 2009 GUWAHATI - The search was resumed early Wednesday to locate the twin-engine Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 transport aircraft with 12 defence personnel on board that went missing Tuesday soon after it took off from a forward air base in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh bordering China, an official said. Two Cheetah helicopters have been pressed into service to locate the missing plane.

June 7th, 2009 SAN PAULO - The bodies of two men from the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil have been found by search teams. "We confirm the recovery from the water of debris and bodies from the Air France plane," Sky News quoted Brazilian air force spokesman Colonel Jorge Amaral, as saying.

June 7th, 2009 US Navy sending locators to French for plane crashWASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is sending two high-tech devices to French ships that will help them locate the black box flight recorders for the Air France plane that crashed nearly a week ago in the Atlantic Ocean.

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 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 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 1st, 2009 PARIS - An Air France airliner with 228 people on board has gone missing off Brazil, French media reports said Monday. They said the Airbus 330 was on a flight to Paris from Rio de Janeiro and contact was lost when the plane was over the Atlantic.

June 1st, 2009 PARIS/RIO DE JANEIRO - An Air France flight with 228 people on board has been lost over the Atlantic Monday morning, sparking a major search mission off the Brazilian coast. The Airbus A330-200, flight number AF 447, left Rio de Janeiro for Paris, but radio contact was lost with the plane shortly after 0600 GMT, reports in both countries said.