June 02, 2009
Brazil confirms Air France jet crashed in ocean
Posted by: admin : Category: Current affairs
Brazilian military planes found a 5-km path of wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean, confirming that an Air France jet carrying 228 people crashed in the sea, Defence Minister Nelson Jobim has said. Jobim told reporters in Rio de Janeiro that the discovery “confirms that the plane went down in that area,” hundreds of kilometres from the Brazilian archipelago of Fernando de Noronha. He said the strip of wreckage included metallic and nonmetallic pieces, but did not describe them in detail. No bodies were spotted in the crash of the Airbus A330 in which all aboard are believed to have died.
