Salvage teams have yet to recover any wreckage from missing Air France flight 447 - despite earlier reports. A Brazilian air force official said debris recovered from the crash site on Thursday was not from the lost Airbus A330. Brigadier Ramon Cardoso, director of Brazilian air traffic control, said: "Up to now, no material from the plane has been recovered. We confirm that the pallet found is not part of the debris of the plane. It's a pallet that was in the area, but considered more to be trash."
Items, including the cargo pallet and two buoys pulled from the sea on Thursday actually came from another source, he said, most probably a ship. The pallet was made of wood and the Air France Airbus A330 did not have any wooden pallets on board.
He also said a big oil slick originally thought to come from the plane probably also came from a ship passing through the zone, 600 miles off Brazil's coast. The fuel slick had originally been used as evidence to suggest the plane did not explode - now a theory under question.
It is five days since the passenger plane went down off Brazil's northeastern coast, killing all 228 people aboard in the world's worst aviation disaster since 2001. (Sky News)
