Air France plane debris found in Atlantic

Search crews have now recovered 24 bodies of passengers onboard an Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. Brazilian military officials say they have also found a large part of the Airbus 330's tail section, boosting hopes the jet's black box flight recorders will soon be retrieved. Accident investigators are still desperate for clues as to the cause of the crash. The plane was carrying 228 passengers from 31 different countries when it went down on May 31 about 400 miles northeast of the Fernando de Noronha islands off Brazil's northern coast. Eight more bodies were discovered on Monday, in the same area where 16 others have been recovered since Saturday. The US Navy has dispatched specialist equipment which it is hoped will assist in locating the missing black boxes. The two "pinger locators" - capable of picking up the flight recorders' emergency beacons from the ocean floor - will be dropped into the ocean near the debris site.

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ITN | June 9, 2009

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