June 10, 2009 - Among all the speculations around the cause of the Air France 447 accident (computer failure, frozen airspeed sensors), the terrorist attack has never been totally ruled out, but as the Sky News journalist says, the finding in the AF447 passengers list of the names of radical Muslims could simply be a "macabre coincidence".
Two passengers with names linked to Islamic terrorism were on the Air France flight which crashed with the loss of 228 lives, it has emerged.
June 5, 2009 - Contrarily to what has been officially announced two days ago, the wreckages found by the Brazilian Air Force do not belong to the lost Airbus and the search efforts have to restart from scratch, without any clue about the crash location.
The 12-mile long fuel slick spotted from the air by Brazilian pilots turned to be oil spilled from a ship. And the piece of white debris that were thought to belong to the missing plane appeared to be pieces of wood, probably fallen from a ship.
Read more »A spokesman for the French Army's General Staff confirmed that the metal pieces and aircraft seats found yesterday by the Brazil Air Force belong to the Air France plane that disappeared on Monday.
Brazil Air Force found yesterday floating pieces of fuselage, stains of kerosene, a lifejacket and aircraft seats some 400 miles from the island of Fernando de Noronha.
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