AIR FRACE FLIGHT 447

French army air crewman searches for remains of Air France Flight 447, which had 228 people on board. A seat, an orange buoy, a tank and a fuel slick were spotted about 400 miles off the Brazilian coast.
The Air France jet's wreckage is believed to be 2 miles beneath the Atlantic, perhaps beyond recovery.If there is ever to be an answer to what caused Air France Flight 447 to fall from the sky, the best clues probably lie on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean amid rugged volcanic ridges and steep trenches, some plunging deeper than the Grand Canyon.Search planes scouring the area Tuesday spotted a seat, an orange buoy, a tank and a fuel slick about 400 miles off the Brazilian coast. Brazilian authorities identified them as pieces from the Airbus A330 that disappeared late Sunday, and French officials reiterated that there was virtually no chance that any of the 228 people aboard survived, the flight was flying during a heavy storm and was probably struck by lightning.