Flight 447 debris found, black box hardly retrievable

FRANCE: More debris from the Air France Flight 447 has been found on Wednesday, but the whereabouts of its black box remained a mystery.

A seven-meter-long object and 10 other objects, some of them metallic, were spotted by the search planes at 3:40 a.m., said the Brazilian Air Force. A 20-kilometer-long oil track was spotted as well.

The items were found in four different points, spread over a five kilometers radius, 90 kilometers south of the place where the first debris were spotted.

According to the Air Force, the debris' position alone is no indication that the Air France plane suffered some sort of explosion in the air.

The plane which identified the debris, an Embraer R-99 model, has not spotted any bodies, but according to the Air Force's spokesman, Colonel Jorge Amaral, the authorities are still working with the possibility of finding survivors of the accident. Paris, Thursday, Xinhua