Brazilian military: 2 bodies found near Air France crash site, briefcase holding ticketRECIFE, Brazil — Investigators were combing a huge swath of ocean Sunday in search of more evidence of the doomed Air France Flight 477 after finding the bodies of two passengers and a briefcase. Debris found in mid-Atlantic confirms crash of Air France Flight 447; daunting recovery beginsFERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil — An airplane seat, a fuel slick and pieces of white debris scattered over three miles of open ocean marked the site in the mid-Atlantic on Tuesday where Air France Flight 447 plunged to its doom, Brazil’s defense minister said. Brazil confirms missing plane debris foundRIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian Defence Minister Nelson Jobim said Tuesday that the authorities are certain they found the remains of the missing Air France passenger plane around midday in the Atlantic Ocean. NJ man arrives in Brazil hoping to reclaim custody of son after courts there rule in his favorNEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey father hopes to bring his son home from Brazil as early as Wednesday, following a multiyear custody battle that reached the highest levels of both the Brazilian and U.S. governments. Air France jet missing with 228 people over Atlantic after running into thunderstormsSAO PAULO — An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris ran into a towering wall of thunderstorms and disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean. French President Nicolas Sarkozy told families of those aboard Monday that “prospects of finding survivors are very small.” |