No hope of survivors in the Air France 447 crash
June 4, 2009
Searchers are racing against time and the elements as they try to retrieve pieces of an Air France jet before the wreckage sinks into the sea.
Officials say, the plane with 228 people aboard broke apart over the Atlantic hours after leaving Rio de Janeiro late Sunday. Flight 447 had flown through towering thunderstorms, and may have shattered in the air.
More Brazilian ships are nearing the area where floating debris has been spotted, hundreds of miles off Brazil’s northern coast. French search planes are on the scene, as is a U.S. team that includes the National Transportation Safety Board.
Seas are calm, though “extreme cloudiness” has been hampering U.S. satellite searches.
