228 people were lost on the Air France flight, 447, which crashed in the Atlantic one week ago. Four more bodies were found Sunday, sadly bringing the number of bodies found to a total of six, and leaving the specter that most bodies may never be found.
Additionally, however, authorities said pilots searching the mid-Atlantic also spotted an indeterminate number of additional bodies from the air and are sending ships to recover them.
The French agency, BEA, investigating the disaster said airspeed instruments on the plane had not been replaced as Airbus had recommended. With no recovery of either black box from the plane, BEAcautioned that it was too early to draw conclusions.
The only instrumented data comes from data gleaned from tranmissions during the flight, not via the black boxes. BEA said the plane received inconsistent airspeed readings from different instruments during its flight, which culminated in in Airbus A330 entering the huge storm that is believed to have played a part in its downing.
In fact, according to BEA, the Air France flight sent out 24 automated error messages lasting about four minutes before it crashed.
The error messages suggest the plane may have been flying too fast or too slow through severe thunderstorms it encountered before the crash.
The importance of finding the black boxes cannot be underemphasized. The black boxes immedicately begin sending a signal when wet, but the signals will fade after 30 days.
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