Further pieces of debris floating in the Atlantic ocean have been located northeast of Brazil and are believed to belong to the Air France Airbus that crashed 1 June. Two Brazilian navy frigates arrived at the approximate crash site last night 3 June, defense officials announced, but the search area has been extended to 500 square km, due to currents. The Brazilian defense minister said that the discovery of a slick of fuel on the surface of the water pointed to the probability that a mid-air explosion was not the cause of the jet’s downing, as it would have burned. Le Monde quotes a source close to the investigation as saying that the plane was flying at an “inadequate” speed, without elaborating. Le Monde (Fre), BBC, Reuters

Posted by Sean Ecker on 4 June 2009 at 10:09 | permalink
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
This work by genevalunch.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
        Post Comment  
 

News story, GenevaLunch, 4 June 2009.

Filed under: World news

Tags: , , , , , , ,

We are happy to have your comments, which are approved before they appear: please remember to be courteous and brief. We accept only comments directly related to an article. We do not accept comment spam - messages sent to more than one site. We do not publish comments if the e-mail address is not legitimate. Thank you!

Comments

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
This work by genevalunch.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.