Bodies found in wreckage of 2009 Air France crash in Atlantic

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By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY

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Update at 10:34 a.m. ET: Investigators have found some bodies in the wreckage of an Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic on June 1, 2009, but still haven't found the plane's black box flight recorders. It remains unclear whether they are still attached to the fuselage, the Associated Press reports.

Earlier posting: Some remains of the 228 passengers and crew aboard an Air France Airbus that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009 have been found in the plane's wreckage, according to a French minister.

Everyone aboard the Airbus 320-303 died when the plane went down in extremely violent weather en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

This photo from 2009 some the recovery of some pieces of the wreckage of an Air France plane taht crashed over the Atlantic en route from Rio to Paris. French officials says the latest search for the bulk of the wreckage has found part of the fuselage entact and containing some bodies from the 228 people who were aboard the plane.

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Searchers, who had made numerous attempts to locate remains of the plane, confirmed on Sunday that pieces of the Airbus were found using submarines.

Today, Environment Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet says human remains were found in the wreckage, which included intact parts of the fuselage, Britain's Daily Telegraph.

The minister is quoted as saying that searchers found "more than just traces" of human remains and that "identification is possible."

CNN.com reports that some of the bodies will be recovered and brought to the surface. The cause of the crash has not been determined.

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