Wreckage path of Air France flight discovered

HOPES grew for three Irish families that their loved ones’ final resting place will be traced after wreckage thought to be from the missing Air France plane was spotted in seas off the coast of northern Brazil.

Brazilian Defence Minister Nelson Jobim said last night that a 5km path of wreckage found in the Atlantic is confirmation that an Air France jet crashed in the ocean.

The families of Aisling Butler, 26, from Roscrea, Co Tipperary; Jane Deasy, 27, from Rathgar, Dublin; and Eithne Walls, 29, from Ballygowan, Co Down, have declined invitations to travel to a reception centre near Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, preferring to await news at home.