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Brazil Navy
To Honour Crashed Air France Victims With Frigate
Ceremony
Brasilia - Brazil's Navy will
honor the victims of Air France flight by holding a
ceremony on a frigate next Monday, a local report
said Saturday.
The ceremony will be held aboard the frigate Bosisio,
which participated in the month-long search
operation.
Relatives of victims are invited to the ceremony and
flowers will be thrown into the sea, the report
said.
After 26 days of operations in the Atlantic Ocean,
the Brazilian army announced on Friday that they
have ended their search for passenger bodies and
wreckage of Air France flight 447.
In total, the Brazilian army found 51 passenger
bodies, of whom 14 have been identified.
Besides, large amount of debris -- from structural
components of the aircraft to baggages -- were
collected during the searches.
An Air France Airbus A330 plane plunged into the
Atlantic some 1,200 km off the Brazilian coastline
on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1.
All 228 people of 32 nationalities on board died. |
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