Well, I looked at the BEA site for corroboration but saw nothing.
A Babelfish translation of the foregoing Portuguese follows-rough but readable.
The French ministry of the Transports announced in this thursday (25) that it will carry through a new stage of search, in the deep one of the sea, the remaining portions of the flight of the Air France AF447, that fell in the day 1º of June of 2009 in the Atlantic Ocean, with 228 people on board, in the passage between Rio De Janeiro and Paris. " The fourth phase of the inquiry in the sea will have to start in February of 2011, according to hypotheses presented in day 5 of October during the last meeting of the committee of information of famílias" , it informed the ministry of the Transport in official notice. Deficiencies in the maintenance of the Airbus-A330 can have contributed for the accident. The information consists of a preliminary report elaborated by French appraisers appointed by court, whose partial text was divulged by the parisiense periodical " Libération". According to periodical, the sensors pitot, that namely helped to the pilot the speed of the aircraft, can have failed because they were not being clean with the had frequency.