First plane crash debris recovered
A helicopter has recovered the first wreckage from doomed Air France Flight 447, Brazil's air force has said.
A structural support piece of the jet, about 8ft long, was pulled from the Atlantic Ocean some 340 miles north-east of the Fernando de Noronha islands, off Brazil's northern coast.
Two buoys were also found but no bodies or human remains have been spotted.
The helicopter was working off one of the navy ships which arrived overnight at one of the crash debris fields.
The air force released the information in a statement on its website.
