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| Debris 'not from Air France jet' | |
| 2009-06-05 | |
| Debris recovered from the Atlantic by Brazilian search teams is "sea trash" and not from a lost Air France jet, a Brazilian air force official has said. Brig Ramon Borges Cardoso contradicted earlier reports, saying "no material from the plane has been recovered". The Airbus A330 was not carrying wooden pallets, it was reported, while a large slick spotted in the area most likely spilled from a ship rather than from a downed plane. Other fuel found in the sea probably did come from the Airbus, he said. "It has been verified that the material did not belong to the plane, they were wood pallets that were used by ships and sometimes planes, but in this flight to Paris, there were no wood pallets," Brig Cardoso said. A Spanish pilot flying in the area at the time of the crash was quoted by his airline, Air Comet, as saying he had seen an "intense flash of white light, which followed a descending and vertical trajectory and which broke up in six seconds".
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| Posted by:3dc |
| #4 Seems we have a new Conspiracy Theorist in our midst. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2009-06-05 19:52 |
| #3 Huh? I find that hard to believe. It's at the bottom of the ocean, cause as yet unknown... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-06-05 19:44 |
| #2 This makes me think it was hijacked and flown away, to resurface repainted as a 9-11 style bomber. Hunt like hell boys, the stakes have been raised. |
| Posted by: Mstrmech 2009-06-05 12:24 |
| #1 The plane went down in a thunderstorm. How did the Spanish pilot see it? The description as publicized reads exactly like a vivid display of multiple lightning flashes in the sky, complete with flashes of white light, descending/vertical trajectory. Maybe it was distorted in translation. --- Yahoo News "French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, speaking Thursday in Rio de Janeiro where he attended a Mass honoring the crash victims, said experts had not found signs that would back up a "terrorism theory." "But we cannot discard that for now" |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-06-05 10:25 |