RIO DE JANEIRO, June 27 (RIA Novosti) - The
Brazilian Navy and Air Force has ended efforts to find more
bodies or debris from the Air France plane that crashed into
the Atlantic almost four weeks ago.
"We wanted very much to find the bodies of all 228
people on board, but we have to accept that the Air Force and
the Navy have done everything they can," Brazilian Air Force
Col. Henry Munhoz said on Friday at a news conference.
Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris
lost contact with ground controllers about four hours after it
took off on June 1, when it was over the Atlantic Ocean about
1,000 kilometers (600 miles) off Brazil's northeast coast.
In more than three weeks of searching, 51 bodies were
found, but none have been recovered for nine days.
The Brazilian military contributed 12 aircraft and 11
ships to the search. France, Spain and the United States also
took part in the operation, and the French will continue to
lead efforts to recover the aircraft's flight data recorders,
which could help determine the cause of the crash.
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