13 More Bodies from Crashed Plane Recovered
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Brazil's Air Force announced on Tuesday that the bodies of 13 more passengers aboard the ill-fated Air France Flight 447 were recovered from the sea, bringing to 41 the total bodies found.
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This handout image released by the Brazilian Navy on June 9, 2009 shows a piece of the wreckage of the ill-fated Air Bus A330-200 being lift into a naval ship during search operations. Brazilian Air Force (FAB) helicopters arrived in the Fernando de Noronha archipelago on Tuesday carrying 16 bodies of victims of the Air France flight A447, which crashed on June 1, 2009 in the Atlantic Ocean while carrying 228 people on their way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. After undergoing initial procedures of identification in Fernando de Noronha, the first 16 bodies recovered will be transported to the search operations centre in the coastal city of Recife, some 740 miles southwest from the place where the current search missions are taking place. [Handout/Getty Images/CFP] |
According to the Air Force's Lieutenant-Brigadier Ramon Borges Cardoso, 16 of those bodies have already been transported to the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, where technicians from Brazil's Federal Police and the Pernambuco state police started the preliminary identification works.
The remaining 25 bodies are being kept in the Brazilian Navy's Frigate Bosisio, and are already in route to Fernando de Noronha. They are due to arrive on Wednesday.
The preliminary identification works involve the cataloguing of all personal belonging found with the bodies, as well as fingerprint capture and collection of DNA samples. Later on, the bodies will be transported by plane to Recife, the capital city of northeastern Pernambuco state.
(Xinhua News Agency June 10, 2009)