AVIATION/ SECOND BODY RECOVERED FROM AIR FRANCE FL447 WRECKAGE

The French BEA said today that recovery teams have retrieved a 2nd body from the wreckage of AIR FRANCE Flight 447, the Airbus A330 that crashed into the Atlantic on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 people onboard. The body, which was found at a depth of almost 2.4 miles, was still strapped into its Airline seat. The remains of another of the 228 victims was recovered on Thursday. French officials said the "operations were carried out in the most dignified care, in difficult conditions". A remote-controlled submarine raised the body a day after the 1st of the skeletal remains was recovered from the debris on the seabed. 50 other bodies were found in the days immediately after the crash. Flight 447 went down after running into an intense high-altitude thunderstorm, 4 hours into a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. The cause of the crash is unknown but the recovery of the data recorders over the past week could solve the mystery. The wreckage of the plane, registration F-GZCP and pictured above, was only discovered last month after a long search of 3860sq miles of sea floor.