Brazil recovers three more bodies near plane crash site

BRASILIA, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Three more bodies were found Sunday in the Atlantic Ocean near the site where an Air France jetliner was believed to have crashed a week ago, Brazilian military officials said.

Brazilian Navy officer Gilcemar Tabosa (L) and Brazilian Air Force Officer Henry Nunhoz attend a press conference in Recife, Brazil, on June 7, 2009. Brazil's air force said Sunday it has recovered three more bodies in the Atlantic Ocean near the site where an Air France jetliner was believed to have crashed a week ago.  (Xinhua/Brazil News Agency)

Captain Guiucemar Tabosa, a navy spokesman, said three bodies were found Sunday morning and were being transferred to the frigate Consititucao.

Pilots also spotted a number of additional bodies from the air and ships were being sent to recover them, he added.

Two bodies were recovered in the ocean on Saturday.

Lieutenant Colonel Henry Munhoz, a spokesman for Brazil's air force, said "hundred of objects" had also been spotted.

There was "no doubt" the recovered debris and bodies were from the Air France plane, he said.

The jetliner, an Airbus 330-200 carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew members, went missing early Monday after losing contact with the control tower on a flight to Paris from Rio de Janeiro.