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Tuesday 9 June 2009

Flight 447 Update: Searchers recover 24 bodies and large tail section

Daily Mail Headline; says: "Search crews have now recovered 24 bodies from the Air France jet that crashed off the coast of Brazil nine days ago killing all 228 on board, including five Britons. Divers yesterday also recovered a large tail section of the plane, a find which could help locate and recover the doomed jet's black boxes. The discoveries of debris and the bodies are all helping searchers narrow their hunt for the jet's black boxes, which were located in the fuselage near the tail section of the jet.

William Waldock, who teaches air crash investigation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona, said that does not mean the black boxes will necessarily be located near where the debris was recovered, 'but finding the tail narrows down the area even further'.