I had some reports from pilots that flew around that time the area and said that the area had a lot of CBs. The comms were difficult (but that's nothing new). One of them even gave some back-up frequencies to an AF, but not sure if it was AF447. Anyway, there wasn't any distress call heard by them be it 123.45 or 121.5
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