Recife, Brazil/ParisFour more bodies—making a total of six--were found today from the Air France plane crash. Search crews also sighted more corpses and plane wreckage about 680 miles (1,100 km) northeast of Brazil's coast.
The Air France crash is the world's worst air disaster since 2001, when an American Airlines flight bound for the Dominican Republic crashed in a residential area of Queens just after takeoff from John F. Kennedy Airport, with 255 people on board.
Reuters reports that investigators are now taking into consideration the possibility that the speed sensors on Flight 447 may have iced up, and Air France said yesterday it was accelerating the replacement of speed sensors on all its Airbus long-haul planes.
Brazil's navy retrieved three of the bodies and France said a helicopter operating from one of its naval frigates had recovered another body. Currently, twelve Brazilian planes, one equipped with radar equipment that can detect material in the water, two French planes, one French ship and five Brazilian navy ships are searching the area.
This coming Wednesday, a nuclear-powered submarine will arrive from France to search for the black box flight data recorders that may shed light on why the plane crashed.