A FRENCH nuclear submarine has reached the crash zone of Air France Flight 447 to join the search for the plane’s black boxes, the key to determining what brought the Airbus down in the sea off Brazil with 228 people on board.

The grim task of identifying victims of the Air France plane crash will begin today.

TWO Brazilian helicopters took off from the islands of Fernando de Noronha to pick up 16 bodies of Air France crash victims, as airline chiefs at a conference insisted the Airbus A330 was one of the safest planes in the world to fly.

AIR France rushed yesterday to replace speed monitors suspected of feeding false information to the computers of Flight 447 and leading to a series of failures that broke the plane apart over the Atlantic Ocean.

Air France and other airlines today moved to replace speed monitors suspected of feeding false information to the computers of Flight 447 and leading to a series of failures that broke the plane apart over the Atlantic Ocean.

Crews searching for the wreckage of the Air France jet which crashed in the Atlantic have found a key part that could tell experts why the plane went down, Brazil’s air force said today.

Search ships methodically worked through debris from a doomed Air France jet, recovering 15 more bodies near the spot where the Airbus A330 is believed to have gone down a week ago.

Searchers found two passengers’ bodies and a briefcase containing an Air France Flight 447 ticket in the Atlantic Ocean near where the jetliner is believed to have crashed, a Brazil military official said.

Doomed Air France Flight 447’s last terrifying few minutes in the air have already been pieced together by accident investigators.

Military planes located new debris from Air France Flight 447 while investigators focused on a nightmarish ordeal in which the jetliner broke up over the Atlantic as it flew through a violent storm.

CRASH investigators have said that they may never find black boxes that could explain why an Air France jet plunged into the ocean, as naval teams trawled deep Atlantic waters.

The black box flight recorders of doomed Air France flight 447 may never be found, a leading accident investigator said today.

BRAZILIAN Defence Minister Nelson Jobim said last night a 5-kilometre path of wreckage found in the Atlantic is confirmation that an Air France jet that carried 228 people crashed in the ocean.

Brazilian Defence Minister Nelson Jobim said tonight that the presence of a three-mile path of wreckage found in the Atlantic is confirmation that an Air France jet crashed in the ocean.

Brazil’s air force has said planes searching for the lost Air France airliner found signs of plane wreckage about 350 miles off the coast today.

Heavy seas and low cloud today hampered the search for the wreckage of the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic with 228 people on board.

THREE young Irish doctors were among the 228 people on board an Air France jet that vanished en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

An Air France jet missing with 228 people - including three Irish citizens - on board ran into a towering wall of thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean, officials said tonight.

Mystery tonight still surrounded the loss of an Air France airliner which disappeared into the Atlantic with 228 people on board.

An Air France jet feared to have crashed into the Atlantic with 228 people on board today reported electrical problems shortly before vanishing.

A French airliner with more than 200 people on board vanished today while over the Atlantic on a flight from Brazil to Paris.

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