A total of 640 pieces of debris from crashed Air France Flight 447 are being shipped from Brazil to France for further studies, Airbus said on Thursday.

Airbus said that those fragments retrieved from the Airbus A330,including an intact tail, will arrive in the southwestern port of Pauillac Tuesday and will be examined in the CEAT aeronautical laboratory in Toulouse.

The Air France Flight 447 en route from Rio to Paris crashed in the Atlantic on June 1, which killed all 228 people on board. The cause of the crash remains unknown.

(Xinhua News Agency July 10, 2009)