Telegraph also covered this
here.
By Ryan Flinn
July 17 (Bloomberg) -- Autopsies of bodies recovered after the June 1 Air France crash in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil indicate the victims didn’t drown, Agence France-Presse reported, citing investigators.
All 228 people on the flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris were killed in the crash, and 50 bodies have been pulled from the water. Post-mortems conducted in Brazil show they “did not die by drowning,” said Colonel Xavier Mulot, a spokesman for the French air transport gendarmes investigating the crash, according to AFP.