Brazil recovers three more bodies from Air France flight 447

Three more bodies of the victims of the Air France passenger plane that crashed in the Atlantic have been recovered near Fernando de Noronha archipelago, bringing the total number found to 44, Brazilian Air Force said on Thursday. The bodies were located by a plane searching the open seas for bodies or debris from the crashed airplane, and were recovered by the Constitution, a Brazilian navy ship, which sailed to the site later, Brazilian Air Force’s Lieutenant-Brigadier Ramon Borges Cardoso said. “It is expected that the bodies will arrive at the archipelago early on Saturday,” Cardoso said. He added that there are possibilities of finding more bodies in the area. “However, we did not collect any remains of the plane on Thursday,” he said. Cardoso said that the first 16 recovered bodies were taken to the Institute of Legal Medicine to be identified, while 25 other bodies were taken to the Fernando de Noronha archipelago for preliminary identification.