WH
In the absence of any (sic) forensic pathology results, they have the audacity to proclaim that the 'bodies were in fairly good shape'.
BEA states that the 30 bodies (or so) recovered by the French navy were fully clothed and
apparently well preserved.
See, no audacity, just facts.
1.13 Medical and Pathological Information
Sailors from the Frigate Ventôse recovered about thirty bodies. A visual examination of the bodies showed that they were clothed and relatively well preserved. All of them were handed over to the Brazilian Navy to be transferred to the Recife morgue.
At this stage of the investigation, the BEA has not yet had access to the autopsy data.