Air France jet crashes into Atlantic Fotos

A Brazilian Air Force radar plane takes off to take part in the searching mission of the Air France flight 447 in Fernando de Noronha, 350 kms off the coast of Natal, in northeastern Brazil, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. The Air France airplane, carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, ran into a towering wall of thunderstorms and disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean late Sunday local time. Brazilian military pilots spotted early Tuesday an airplane seat, an orange buoy, and other debris and signs of fuel in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean as they hunted for the missing flight.

A crew member uses binoculars, in this photo released on June 2, 2009 by the French Defense Ministry, as a Breguet Atlantique flies a search mission. Wreckage spotted in the Atlantic Ocean is "without a doubt" from the Air France jet that disappeared en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro with 228 people on board, Brazil's defense minister said on Tuesday. REUTERS/ECPAD/French Defense Ministry (TRANSPORT MILITARY DISASTER) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS)

A Brazilian black hawk helicopter arrive from a search operation over the area where the Air France flight AF447 went missing en route from Rio to Paris, at a base in Fernando de Noronha island June 2, 2009. Wreckage spotted in the Atlantic Ocean is "without a doubt" from the Air France jet that disappeared en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro with 228 people on board, Brazil's defense minister said on Tuesday.REUTERS/Bruno Domingos (BRAZIL DISASTER TRANSPORT)