Air France Flight 447 , According to Reuters report, Brazilian search crews on Saturday retrieved the first bodies from a crashed Air France flight in the Atlantic, and the plane's maker said it had detected faulty speed readings on the same type of jets.
Rescue officials said, Navy ships found the bodies of two men and debris including a blue seat with a serial number matching Air France flight 447, a rucksack containing a vaccination card, and a briefcase with an Air France ticket inside.
Jorge Amaral, air force spokesman told the reporters on the city of Recife, "This morning at 8:14 a.m., we confirmed the rescue from the water of pieces and bodies that belonged to the Air France flight."
Brazilian Rescue sent air force planes and navy ships have been scouring a swathe of the Atlantic about 1,100 km (683 miles) northeast of Brazil's coast since the Airbus A330-200 plane disappeared on Monday, killing all 228 people on board.
The crash of the said plane flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris was the world's deadliest air disaster since 2001 and the worst in Air France's 75-year history. Fears have grown that many bodies may have sanked or were devoured by sharks.
The airspeed sensors may have malfunctioned, theories have centered on this idea leading the pilots to set the wrong speed as the plane passed through storms.
Airbus had detected faulty speed readings on its A330 jets ahead of last week's crash and had recommended clients replace a sensor, stated by French air investigators on Saturday.
In a news conference, BEA chief Paul-Louis Arslanian, said that it was too soon to say if problems with the pressure-based speed sensors were in any way responsible for the disaster.
He further stated, "Some of the sensors (on the A330) were earmarked to be changed ... but that does not mean that without these replacement parts, the (Air France) plane would have been defective."
Airbus officials confirmed it issued a bulletin asking the plane's 50 or so airline operators to consider changing the speed sensors, known as Pitot tubes, but it said it was an optional measure to improve performance and not related to safety.
The date of the said bulletin was not immediately clear, and an Air France spokesman said he did not yet know whether the sensors had been changed on the stricken jet.
The doomed Air France plane Flight 447 sent 24 automated messages between 10:10 p.m. EDT (0210 GMT) and 10:14 EDT (0214 GMT) indicating a series of system failures before it vanished, Arslanian said.
In the middle of this stream of data was one message showing inconsistent speed readings from the A330's sensors.
The messages also showed that the autopilot was off, though it was impossible to say whether it had disengaged itself, as it is designed to do when it receives suspect data, or whether the pilot had decided to turn it off, Arslanian said.
