A Brazilian air force spokesman said on Tuesday that debris possibly from the missing Air France plane had been found.

Jorge Amaral said aircraft seats and other debris were spotted floating in the Atlantic Ocean about 650 km northeast of the Brazilian archipelago of Fernando de Noronha by search planes early on Tuesday morning.

The aircraft seats and other debris were found along the path the missing plane had taken, but the authorities could not immediately confirm they was from the plane, which, with 228 passengers on board, vanished on Sunday night about four hours after leaving Rio de Janeiro for Paris.

(Xinhua News Agency June 3, 2009)