France says finds bodies in Atlantic crash wreckage
PARIS | Mon Apr 4, 2011
France's BEA accident investigation authority said on Sunday it had found a large part of the plane's wreckage including the engine and parts of the fuselage, and Environment Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet said on Monday there were human remains inside.
"We have more than just traces, we have bodies... Identification is possible," she told France Inter radio.
"It's true that bodies have been seen, but given the sensitive nature of the subject we prefer to keep certain details for the families," he told France Info radio.
The discovery of the chunks of the Air France wreckage in a vast search radius of some 10,000 square kilometers, has raised hopes that the aircraft's flight recorders, or black boxes, might now be found.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/04/us-france-crash-idUSTRE7322NT20110404