Wingview and RGBrock,
Families happy? One thing those families know is that relatives or friends are not going to reappear so "happy" hardly applies, don't you think?
I had my doubts nine/ten months ago as to the diligence that would be put into this search, and as to the possible benefit to Airbus and AF of a superficial search finding nothing. No longer; it seems preposterous to think the people on those ships were there just to pretend to be looking or that BEA/AF/AB would prefer the accident forgotten, nothing to be learned from it.