Debris recovered was not from Air France plane

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The crash of the Air France passenger plane off the Brazilian coast early this week became even more of a mystery when officials reported that items retrieved from the Atlantic Ocean were not debris from the ill-fated Airbus A330-200.

Ships continue to search for wreckage from flight 447, which disappeared several hundred miles off the north-east coast of Brazil with 228 people on board late on Sunday night, as it was on route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

Brigadier Ramon Cardoso, Brazil’s air traffic control director, said to reporters in the city of Recife: “Up to now, no material from the plane has been recovered.”

His statement was in contradiction to one he made earlier on the same day, indicating that a pallet and two buoys that had been retrieved from the ocean by navy crews were pieces of the Air France Airbus that had gone down.

As he later admitted, the items were actually just sea “trash”, probably dumped by a ship as it passed through, as was the large patch of oil that was first thought to have been a fuel slick from the French plane.

Several vessels from the Brazilian navy continue to look for debris from the aircraft, including a seat and what looked to be part of a fuselage, that were sighted by planes from the country’s air force a couple of days earlier.

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