600 pieces from Brazil plane crash shipped to France

MORE than 600 pieces from Air France Flight 447 are being sent from Brazil to France by ship to be studied further for clues to the cause of the June 1 crash, Airbus said yesterday.

The disaster overshadowed a meeting of Air France-KLM shareholders yesterday, with pilots saying the company didn’t do enough to prevent the plane crashing into the Atlantic Ocean. All 228 people aboard were killed.

French investigators say 640 parts of the plane – including the tail, an engine cover, uninflated life jackets, seats and kitchen items – have been recovered, some of the bigger pieces that had to be handled by cranes. They were initially held in the Brazilian city of Recife.