Sonar detectors on a small unmanned submarine late Saturday stumbled across a field of metal debris are a spot without located 600 miles off the coast of side-scan the sandy ocean floor connected the northern Brazil more than six miles north of the last known position of the Air France flight 447.
Within hours, an other Remus 6000 drone u-class submarine was a series of haunting black and white images of specialists on board the main search page, the Alucia transmission: two engines, RIP disabling of the wing of the aircraft; Bits of LG, a section of the fuselage dotted with a number of Windows.
And facilities.
"That for we were not prepared", said Robert Soulas, his daughter and son-in-law lost in the crash, the discovery of the body. "We are confronted with other trauma now."
At a press conference at the headquarters of France, Bureau of studies and analyses outside of Paris, officials said Monday the remains of several victims were clearly visible, although it would be probably several weeks or months before a more accurate count of corpses interred within the level of the high-resolution images,, an Airbus A330-200, would be known.
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, a Minister, that monitors the environment and transport problems, said "Bodies have been found" reporters. "they are recovered and identified."
Investigators said that it would take three to four weeks before specially equipped recovery, start the ships on the spot the wreckage, and the dead, from which website could come away.
All 228 passengers and crew members were killed, as flight 447 1 June 2009 in a heavy, high-altitude lightning way to Paris from Rio de Janeiro went. Previous searches yielded more than 600 pieces of floating debris and the remains of no more than 50 facilities - 45 passengers and five crew members, including the aircraft captain.
With the ruins of 600 metres by 200 metres is located in a relatively limited field measurement said Jean-Paul Troadec, Director of the Bureau investigations were investigators now concentrate their efforts on the identification and retrieval of the aircraft black box, which they hope to the secret of the cause of twin-engine aircraft go to resolve would help down.
It remained unclear whether the recorders - which are usually on the back, on the bottom of the hull - remained connected or separated on impact with the water, said Mr Troadec. The images of the researchers examined so far showed not the rear section of the level.
Also, it was unclear whether for immersed in salt water for almost two years and under considerable pressure, the data contained therein - position, speed, altitude and position when it ran into trouble - would sufficiently legible voice recordings from the cockpit and information at the level, to advance the investigation.
Alain Bouillard, the Bureau principal investigator responsible for the recovery efforts, said he had "great confidence" in the robustness of the black box, but conceded that it was likely that they suffered some damage.
Officials said experts from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts would to collect still more detailed images of the wreck in the next few days.
The French Government expected to award a contract for salvage until next week, said Thierry Mariani, Secretary of State for transport.
Mr Troadec said that the wreckage resting on a flat part of the seabed, which seemed sand or mud was found. Photos showed pieces of the plane partly embedded in a soft sediment.
Investigators declined to exposing exact location of the wreck in order, they said, to maintain the integrity of the site. But a map, the reporter appeared to show that where air traffic controllers contact with the plane lost it less than six miles from the point was.
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