AIR FRANCE 447 - AT 9:10 A.M. ET: The mystery of Air France flight 447, which vanished over the Atlantic on a flight from Rio to Paris, continues to deepen. It now turns out that wreckage found by the Brazilian navy was not from that flight, but from a shipwreck. There is not a trace thus far.
The French foreign minister has added a sobering thought:
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, speaking Thursday in Rio de Janeiro where he attended a Mass honoring the crash victims, said experts had not found signs that would back up a "terrorism theory."
"But we cannot discard that for now," he told reporters. "Nothing leads us to believe that there was an explosion, but that doesn't mean there wasn't one."
"All the paths are open and we will not give priority to a single premise because that would be immoral," he added.
June 5, 2009
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