The Brazilian Air Force has found the bodies of two men floating in the ocean near where investigators believe doomed Air France Flight 447 crashed.
The first bodies from the crash were found early on Saturday morning, spokesman Jorge Amaral told reporters in the north-eastern Brazilian city of Recife.
'This morning at 8:14 a.m., we confirmed the retrieval from the water of pieces and bodies that belonged to the Air France flight,' Amaral said.--------------
Among the debris retrieved on Saturday was a seat with a serial number that matched the missing flight, a rucksack, and a case with an Air France ticket inside, rescue officials said.
Air France has confirmed that the ticket corresponded to a passenger on board Flight 447.
Brazil's air force has been scouring a swathe of the Atlantic about 680 miles (1,100 km) northeast of Brazil's coast since Monday's crash.
Several Brazilian navy ships have also arrived in the area, but fears have grown that many bodies sank or were devoured by sharks.-------------
The French accident investigation agency, BEA, found the doomed plane received inconsistent airspeed readings by different instruments as it struggled in a massive thunderstorm on its flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in the early hours of Monday morning.Arslanian cautioned that it is too early to draw conclusions about the role of Pitot tubes in the crash, saying that 'it does not mean that without replacing the Pitots that the A330 was dangerous.'It also emerged today that the jet had issued 24 system failure messages before it crashed.Fourteen of those messages were sent within the space of one minute, from 3.10am BST to 3.11am BST, a briefing in Paris was told today.
By Peter Allen and Mail Foreign Service
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