Air France crash jet's tail found

12 April 2011 last updated at 23: 35 GMT the bodies of many of the 228 victims were also on the bottom of the tail section of an Air France plane, in the year 2009 over the Atlantic Ocean crashed on the ocean floor found found, Said relatives of the victims.

Investigators had told them of the section was "relatively intact", they added.

The discovery has raised hopes that the "black boxes", who have been on the back of the Jet, can be restored.

Of voice and data recorder could result in critical information about the cause of the crash, which killed 228 people on the flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

There is speculation that incorrect speed sensors were to blame, but officials say, other factors have contributed.

' 99% certain '

Nelson Marinho of Brazilian victims family Association said French accident investigation Bureau (BEA) officials had told them at a meeting in Paris on Monday, the "tail section was been found and that it is relatively intact so the black boxes might still accompanied by".

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she made it clear that she could not guarantee that the contents of the black boxes can be obtained, "

end quote Maarten van Sluis Brazilian victims family Association" I am 99% certain black box will be recovered "he said."

BEA spokeswoman Martine del Bono urge caution about the news.

"We are in a very short time span, have a maximum amount of information to find the black boxes," she said. "But we don't know where they are now – we have to find them on the site."

Maarten van Sluys, another Member of the Brazilian victims family Association, said there was also concern about the State of the black boxes sitting after two years in corrosive sea water under enormous pressure, almost 4 km below the surface of the ocean.

"she made clear that she could not guarantee that the contents of the black boxes can be obtained," he told the associated press.

Flight 447 crashed North-East in the Atlantic on 1 June 2009, after running in an intensive high-altitude lightning.

Automatic messages of the Airbus 330 computers sent showed that it had received false air speed readings from the sensors.

The French Transport Ministry has said that the ship Ile de sein, equipped with a u-boot is remote-operated, Cape Verde will be leaving on 21 April is retrieving parts of the wreckage.

The bodies of many of the victims were found at the site.

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