NOTE TO PRESS 02/06/09 (09:20 Brasialia time)
REPORT OF THE SEARCHES OF AIR FRANCE FLIGHT 447
The Air Force Command says the aircraft that are in the mission's search flight AF 447 localized and small traces of aircraft wreckage in the ocean, however it is not possible to state that belong to the missing aircraft.
At the dawn of Tuesday (02/06), the R-99 6751 aircraft that took off from Fernando de Noronha-PE at 22h35 (Brasília time) to perform scans using the synthetic aperture radar, identified around 01:00 (Brasília time) some "return" in the radar indicated that non-metallic and metallic materials floating in the ocean. The positions of these "returns" were marked by geographical coordinates and led to the search rescheduled, focusing now, approximately 650 kilometers north of Fernando de Noronha-PE.
Aircraft C-130 saw, around 06h49 (Brasília time), material at two points about 60 km distant. Among them, a plane seat, small white pieces, an orange ball, a drum, and traces of oil and kerosene.
Finally, the Air Command reports that it maintains 10 aircraft available on the actions of search and rescue aircraft.
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