Large piece of Air France wreckage found in the Atlantic Ocean

Dirt from the level of Air France, which fell in the year 2009 in the Atlantic Ocean is quite concentrated. This has investigators confident that the aircraft "Black boxes" are stored.

Newly found plane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 to Paris from Rio de Janeiro is the wreck of an Air France a large and intact in the passenger jet, a French Minister said on Monday.

"This is a large part of the plain, in one piece," Transport Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, France Inter said public radio, a day after investigators announced that level was found parts which condemned to failure.

Kosciusko-Morizet said it was now the "hope for a quick search the black boxes" could be said that investigators what caused the crash, the partly due to allegedly defective speed monitors is been blamed.

The aircraft went all 228 people on Board about halfway between Senegal and Brazil 1 June 2009, in the deadliest crash in Air France to kill history.

"Carried out in the search in the sea to the team on Board last 24 hours... the (ship) Alucia located parts of the aircraft," France's Bureau of investigation and analysis (BEA) said in a statement.

"These elements have been identified by BEA investigators as part of the debris of the A330-203 level, flight AF 447", the crashed, the statement said.

BEA Director Jean-Paul Troadec said that investigators found hope have the aircraft "Black boxes", because the dirt area was relatively concentrated.

"The good news is that area is relatively concentrated debris." And this gives us hope of the "black boxes", ", he said."

TROADEC said, that the parts of the wreckage, which had been found was from "Engines and certain elements of the wing."

A new search for the wreckage on 25 March started with the help of Alucia, a ship exploration of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute-find on the fourth attempt, the debris in the hope discover what caused the crash.

The official reason remains vague, but it has partial blame for the incorrect speed sensors from Airbus was used, with Air France accused response not fast enough to reports that they may be incorrect.

The Alucia came from Seattle on the northwest coast of the United States with three Remus u-boats, which search the ocean floor.

The u-boats have photos of the ruins.

The estimated cost of the search are Air France and Airbus, which will be probed for alleged manslaughter in connection with the crash - pay$ 12.7 million.

TROADEC had previously told AFP that the latest search would try a different approach, with researchers, simply held the debris search specifically for the black boxes, or "Black box".

The latest search contain a much larger area of a 46-mile radius around the last known position of flight 447.

A third search of the sea bed to try to find the black boxes had errors in May ended.

"The determination of the location, a few days after the start of the fourth phase of the search at sea which is sponsored by Air France and Airbus, is very good news," Air France KLM CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said.

It is hoped that enough information to explain the cause of the crash, he added.

"It can now answers to questions, the families of the victims, our company since June 1, 2009... in terms of the facts, which this tragedy led to," Gourgeon said.

The head of the French Federation, the families of the victims, Jean-Baptiste Audousset, also spoke of "Hope for the families," but the family warned would be cautious and waited for proof.

"It is key that the black boxes are found," said a spokesman for Airbus. "This the only possible way to understand what the accident is led."

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Despite Gulf oil spill rig gain own executives large bonuses

Transocean declared 2010 "the best year in security" in the company's history despite the oil spill Golf.Transocean executives receive pay raises, bonuses, SEC filing of SaysCash Awards claimed security RecordDespite Gulf oil spill, company based "Best year in security" in the part on company 2010

(CNN) --deklarieren 2010 "the best year in safety in the history of our company," Transocean Ltd., maker of the oil rig in Gulf of Mexico, the exploded, killing 11 workers, received the top executives of hefty bonuses and raises, according to a final account at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

These include $ 200,000 for Transocean President and Chief Executive Officer Steven L. Newman, whose Jahresgehalt of $900,000 1.1 million US dollars will increase, according to the SEC report a raise. Newman's bonus was $374,062, the report says.

Newman has also a 5.4 million US-dollar long-term compensation payments, which awarded the company after his appointment as CEO in March 2010, according to the SEC filing.

Based the latest cash awards part on the performance of the company "security," says Transocean submission.

"Notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico, we an exemplary statistical safety record reached interest rate, measured by our total recordable incident and total potential severity" the SEC statement reads. "These standards measured, we recorded the best year in safety in the history of our company."

Transocean President Steven L. Newman received a raise $ 200,000.

The company called the "a reflection of our commitment to achieve at any time, anywhere, a incident environment," record the SEC filing says.

The company did not respond to an E-mail from CNN seeks comment.

The April 20, 2010, 17 workers injured on the deepwater horizon rig explosion and killed 11 others, including nine Transocean employees, according to the SEC filing. It was the worst spill in US history called.

The fountain was limited to three months later, spilled but not before millions barrels of oil into the Gulf.

President Barack Obama National Commission for the BP deepwater horizon oil spill and offshore drilling published in January a report, the blame for the accident under Transocean, BP-leased the Rig-and Halliburton, the the rig cement casing installed to spread.

The Commission has problems with deepwater drilling are "systemic" and, that only "important reform" prevents a further disaster.

Another March 23 published report found that a piece of the Prestige oil spill drill pipe in the platform rig blowout preventer to stop a machine oil of flows captured caused in the Gulf. The report was of various U.S. provide, among other things the Interior Department and the Department of homeland security given in order.

The Interior Department has a much broader report said, which relies on additional data sources-including eye-witness accounts and exhibition-will be published this summer.

The oil spill caused a flood of lawsuits against BP, Transocean and Halliburton from a variety of plaintiffs, including owner of Gulf Coast company, who claim that they suffered heavy financial losses due to the spill.

The plaintiffs also Transocean shareholders who claim the company falsely claimed that past had fixed security issues with its blowout blowout, before the Gulf spill.

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