Originally Posted by
Unixman
awblain Sorry but that is wrong. It didn't take 2 years to find the wreckage - bits were found within a few days ( including 50 bodies). What you meant to say that the data recorders took 2 years to be found - a very different thing.
awblain is quite correct.
Some bodies and some floating debris were recovered about 5 days after AF447 went down.
The wreckage (i.e. the fuselage on the sea bed) wasn't located until almost two years after the event.