Brazilian Navy find sea trash not Air France debris

Oil slick and debris are from passing ships not Air France 447 (Brazilian Air Force)

No debris sited yet

story from Agence France Press

Enthusiastic reports of sightings of oil slick and potential fuselage pieces from the air turned out to be false hopes in the search for debris from Air France flight447 which was lost with 228 people on board.

“RED-FACED Brazilian officials have said debris they thought was from an Air France crash in the Atlantic was in fact sea “trash”, adding to the uncertainties surrounding the jet tragedy.”

“Up to now, no material from the plane has been recovered,” Brigadier Ramon Cardoso, director of Brazilian air traffic control, told reporters in the northeastern city of Recife.”

“Items, including a cargo pallet and two buoys, pulled from the ocean yesterday – which Brig Cardoso himself had initially said came from downed Air France flight AF 477 – actually came from another source, most certainly a ship.”

“We confirm that the pallet found is not part of the debris of the plane. It’s a pallet that was in the area, but considered more to be trash,” he said. (Agence France Press)

Families of passengers and crew hold out not hope for survivors but there is still hope to find something from the mysteriously downed plane.

“Also, a Spanish pilot who was flying at high altitude some distance behind the doomed Air France jetliner said he saw an ‘intense flash of white light”, according to his airline, Air Comet.”

“A co-pilot and passenger also saw the bright light, according to a report initially given to Spain’s El Mundo newspaper.”

“Suddenly, we saw in the distance a strong and intense flash of white light, which followed a descending and vertical trajectory and which broke up in six seconds,” the unidentified captain wrote.” (AFP)

Five days after the plane disappeared off radar screens there is little but conjecture and faint hope of finding any real evidence or answers to what happened to Air France flight 447.

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