New bodies found from crash zone

Agence France-Presse

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From the archipelago, the bodies would be flown to the mainland coastal city of Recife for identification using dental records and DNA from relatives, air force spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Henry Munhoz told reporters late Sunday in Recife. Brazilian and French continued to scour the crash zone 1,100 kilometers off Brazil's northeast coast for more bodies and pieces of wreckage.

A French military nuclear submarine was expected to arrive in the area tomorrow to hunt for the elusive black boxes from Air France flight AF 447, which came down June 1 with 228 people on board as it was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. Homing beacons on the data devices, believed to lie on the sea floor at a depth of up to 6,000 meters, will cease to operate in three weeks.

A U.S. Navy team was flying to Brazil yesterday with high-tech underwater listening devices to help the search for the black boxes from an Air France plan. The equipment can track sounds down to a depth of 20,000 feet (six kilometers).