Air France plane crash

A woman seeking information about flight 447 is surrounded by journalists in Rio de Janeiro Photograph: Ricardo Moraes/AP

An Air France employee at Tom Jobim international airport, Rio de Janeiro Photograph: Sergio Moraes/Reuters

Brazilian journalists try to get information from Air France in Rio de Janeiro Photograph: Antonio Scorza/AFP/Getty Images

Air France's general director, Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, gives a press conference at Charles de Gaulle airport, Paris Photograph: Pierre Verdy/AFP/Getty Images

The brother of a passenger speaks to the media Photograph: Antonio Scorza/AFP/Getty Images

A man reads a flight status sign at Charles de Gaulle Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

Distraught relatives and friends of passengers arrive at a crisis centre at Charles de Gaulle Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

An Airbus A330-200 similar to the lost plane Photograph: Reuters

President Nicolas Sarkozy attends a meeting at Charles de Gaulle with transport ministers Dominique Bussereau, right, and Jean-Louis Borloo Photograph: Guillaume Baptiste/AFP/Getty Images

Reporters at the Air France check-in desk in Rio de Janeiro Photograph: Ricardo Moraes/AP

A Brazilian air force Black Hawk helicopter arrives at Fernando de Noronha airbase, the main operations centre for the search Photograph: Alexandro Auler/LatinContent/Getty Images

A Hercules C-130 pilot from the Brazilian air force keeps a lookout for debris 90 miles from Sao Pedro and Sao Paulo islands, northern Brazil Photograph: Johnson Barros/AFP/Getty Images

A slick believed to be fuel from the Airbus is seen from a Brazilian air force plane about 745 miles north-east of Recife Photograph: Reuters

Brazil's defence minister, Nelson Jobim, left, and a navy officer look at a chart showing locations of possible debris Photograph: Julia Alves/AFP/Getty Images

Brazilian air force crew scan the Atlantic Photograph: LatinContent/Getty Images

Brazilian air force crew scan the Atlantic Photograph: LatinContent/Getty Images

A wooden pallet initially thought to have been debris from the plane but later deemed to have come from a ship Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

A float that turned out to be from a ship Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

A French marine plane returns from the search to a military base in Natal Photograph: Ricardo Moraes/AP

Boldro beach on Fernando de Noronha island, 250 miles off the Brazilian mainland, is serving as a base for the search and collection point of any debris or bodies recovered from flight 447 Photograph: Eraldo Peres/AP

The Air France building in Fernando de Noronha has been on the island since 1927 and is used as a home for technicians, and to store equipment and transmission antennas Photograph: Evaristo Sa/AFP

A Brazilian navy ship approaches debris believed to be from flight 447. On the left, a coloured smoke signal used by searchers to mark the spot where debris was found Photograph: AP

Officers recover debris belonging to the flight 447. Four more bodies were found Sunday 7 June near the spot where an jet is believed to have crashed a week ago, bringing the total number of bodies plucked from the water to six Photograph: AP

A diver from the French military vessel Ventose swims towards floating debris in the Atlantic ocean Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

A piece of debris from flight 447 on the deck of a Brazilian navy vessel after being picked up out of the Ocean, 745 miles north-east of Recife Photograph: Brazilian Air Force /EPA