SAR effort
Hi YHZ Chick
I think that it'd be premature to state that AF447's wreckage has been found inasmuch as what was sighted earlier today was from a C-130H flying, at best, 500ft to 1000ft ASL.
The idea is to retrieve whatever components are found in the two debris fields, find mfg serial numbers and determine whether these match or not what was installed in AF447's airframe. And that will only be possible after such items are collected - which will not happen before tomorrow. If you factor in the time to correctly identify whatever is found and see whether the serial numbers match, and chances are that a positive or negative ID will only be available some time between Thursday or Friday.
Unless, of course, they find a chunk of sheet metal with the register "F-GZCP" painted on it...
Cheers