BRAZIL: MINISTRY OF THE DEFENSE EMITS REPORT OF THE SEARCHES OF FLIGHT 447 OF AIR FRANCE

The Command of the Aeronautics informs that the aircraft that if find in the mission of search of flight AF 447 had located vestiges and small destroços of aircraft in the ocean, however not yet is possible to affirm that they belong to the disappeared aircraft. In the dawn of this tuesday (02/06), the aircraft R-99 6751 that it took off of Fernando de Noronha-FOOT to 22h35 (hourly of Brasilia), for accomplishment of sweepings with use of the radar of synthetic opening, identified for return of 01h00 (hourly of Brasilia) some “returns” in the radar that indicated metallic and not metallic materials floating in the ocean. The positions of these “returns” had been marked by geographic coordinates and had motivated the replanejamento of the search, concentrating themselves, now, approximately the 650 kilometers the northeast of Fernando de Noronha-FOOT. C-130 aircraft had sighted, for return of 06h49 (hourly of Brasilia), materials in colon distant about 60 kilometers. Amongst them, an airplane armchair, small white pieces, one floats orange, a drum, beyond vestiges of oil and kerosene. Finally, the Command of the Aeronautics informs that it keeps 10 available aircraft in the actions of search and rescue of the Aircraft.
CENTER OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION OF THE AERONAUTICS