Air France 447 - Brazilian Navy Command and Aeronautical Command - Press Release 31
PRESS RELEASE 31
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15/06/2009 - 14h24
Press Release - English
INFORMATION ON THE SEARCH FOR AIR FRANCE FLIGHT 447
The Brazilian Navy Command and Aeronautical Command inform that the total number of bodies rescued and transported to Recife (PE) is 43 and not 44, as previously announced. There was a correction of this number after the pre-identification work by the Federal Police experts and the Pernambuco Department of Public Safety.
Due to the impossibility of only visual verification of the state of the bodies, from this date onwards, the search operational command will start to use the term ´´mortal remains´´ and no longer ´´bodies´´ to account for what is found in the ocean.
The six bodies retrieved by the French Navy are, at this moment, being transferred to the Frigate Bosísio, another three already are on board the Brazilian ship.
Meteorological conditions, though not ideal, allowed search aircraft and ships to accomplish their duties. No bodies were found nor sightings of wreckage of the fallen aircraft made.
This Sunday, at 15:30, the operational center received the visit of the French Ambassador Pierre-Jean Vandoorne. He confirmed his support and admiration for the mission being carried out by the military.
After two weeks of searches, we inform that the R-99 aircraft employed in the mission accomplished the electronic scanning of a total of 1.019.548 square kilometers of the Atlantic Ocean, the equivalent of around ten times the size of the State of Pernambuco or five times the State of São Paulo. The electronic scanning made it possible for other aircraft and ships to identify the areas where bodies and aircraft wreckage were located .
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