Air France plane crash

People looked at arrival boards at the Terminal 2E after the Air France jet dropped off radar over the Atlantic ocean off the Brazilian coast, at the Charles-de-Gaulle airport in Roissy, northern suburb of Paris. Air traffic control lost contact with the flight after it took off from Rio de Janeiro. Air France Flight 447, which was heading from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, plunged into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009. The accident claimed 228 lives. (AFP)

France's Transports Junior Minister Dominique Bussereau (C) arrives at the Charles-de-Gaulle airport in Roissy after the jet dropped off radar off the Brazilian coast. Air traffic control lost contact with the flight at 0600 GMT. (AFP)

French president Nicolas Sarkozy (C), flanked by French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo (2ndL) leaves a crisis meeting at the Charles-de-Gaulle airport in Roissy after the Air France passenger jet with 228 people on board dropped off radar. (AFP)

A Brazilian Air Force radar plane is fuelled up at the Fernando de Noronha airport in preparation for the search of the Air France flight 447 that plunged into the Atlantic just a few hours after taking off on from Rio de Janeiro on Monday. (AFP)

Brazil's Vice President Jose Alencar (C) Rio de Janeiro's Governor Sergio Cabral (L) and Rio de Janeiro's Mayor Eduardo Paes (second from left) arrive for a press conference after visiting relatives of passengers of the Air France flight 447 at the Tom Jobim Airport in Rio de Janeiro. (AP)

Getting ready for search: A Brazilian Air Force radar plane is fuelled up at the Fernando de Noronha airport in praparation for the search of the Air France flight 447 that plunged into the Atlantic just a few hours after taking off on from Rio de Janeiro on Monday. (AFP)

Turbulent route: The image shows the route taken by the ill-fated Air France plane flying from Rio De Janeiro to Paris.

In this photo released by Brazil's Air Force, Brazil's Navy sailors recover debris from the missing Air France jet at the Atlantic Ocean. A US Navy team flew to Brazil with high-tech underwater listening devices to help the search for the Black Boxes from the Air France plane. (AP)

Braving the tragedy: Federal Police forensic officers prepare a container for the arrival of bodies found during search operations of the missing Air France jet, in Fernando de Noronha island airport, off the northeast coast of Brazil. (AP)

The remains of disaster: This photo released by Brazil's Air Force shows recovered debris belonging to the Air France flight AF447 in a Brazilian Navy ship at the Atlantic Ocean. (AP)

A Brazil Air Force official shows a photo with a piece of the Air France 447 flight being recovered from the Atlantic ocean, during a press conference in Recife, northeastern Brazil. (AP)

In this photo released by the French Defence ministry, a French Navy diver from the Ventose frigate approaches floating debris in the search area of Air France's Flight 447 in the Atlantic ocean. Search ships methodically worked through debris from a doomed Air France jet. (AP)