PARIS, 5 May. France has recovered the first body from the wreckage of Air France plane that fell into the Atlantic off the Brazilian coast on 1 June 20009, as announced by the Directorate General of the French National Gendarmerie (DGGN). "After a failed attempt, the remains of one victim has been recovered (...) Thursday," he said in a statement.
France began operating last week to rescue the bodies and wreckage of the A330-200 of Air France in which is the fifth year search. The crash killed the 228 occupants of the plane, of 32 different nationalities, including 61 French and 58 Brazilians. The rescue of the first remains were produced after two years of searching in an area of 10,000 km under the sea.
It is feared that many bodies can not withstand sudden temperature change of the seabed to the surface. The body, which was found still attached to the seat of the aircraft at about 3,900 meters deep, is degraded, so the experts collected samples in order to proceed to the identification of the victim, while the investigation continues, newspaper Gallo 'Les Echos'.
"The samples have been collected by police investigators, it will move the same along the two flight recorders for laboratory analysis to determine a possible identification of victims by DNA," said the DGGN. IDENTIFICATION OF THE BODIES. In this way, and as agreed, the Navy will escort the remains of the boxes and the DNA to be transferred to the headquarters of the BEA in Le Bourget.
The operation, headed by the Bureau of Investigation and Aviation Safety Analysis (BEA, for its acronym in French) and is composed of 69 experts, was recovered and the two black boxes, one of which, which contains records the parameters of the flight is "in good condition." The work of the operation carried out in two working groups, both under the direction of the BEA.
The first is responsible for the analysis of photographs taken in the previous phase and the second will focus on the black boxes and pieces of apparatus. These experts are accompanied by four officers of the French Judicial Police and Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (Ircgn), and a Brazilian Navy officer.
According to BEA, the recovery of bodies and personal belongings of the bodies is the responsibility of judicial officials. Rescue operations are conducted by police in military aviation (GTA), the Coast Guard and aboard the ship Ircgn 'Isla de Sein'. 
France began operating last week to rescue the bodies and wreckage of the A330-200 of Air France in which is the fifth year search. The crash killed the 228 occupants of the plane, of 32 different nationalities, including 61 French and 58 Brazilians. The rescue of the first remains were produced after two years of searching in an area of 10,000 km under the sea.
It is feared that many bodies can not withstand sudden temperature change of the seabed to the surface. The body, which was found still attached to the seat of the aircraft at about 3,900 meters deep, is degraded, so the experts collected samples in order to proceed to the identification of the victim, while the investigation continues, newspaper Gallo 'Les Echos'.
"The samples have been collected by police investigators, it will move the same along the two flight recorders for laboratory analysis to determine a possible identification of victims by DNA," said the DGGN. IDENTIFICATION OF THE BODIES. In this way, and as agreed, the Navy will escort the remains of the boxes and the DNA to be transferred to the headquarters of the BEA in Le Bourget.
The operation, headed by the Bureau of Investigation and Aviation Safety Analysis (BEA, for its acronym in French) and is composed of 69 experts, was recovered and the two black boxes, one of which, which contains records the parameters of the flight is "in good condition." The work of the operation carried out in two working groups, both under the direction of the BEA.
The first is responsible for the analysis of photographs taken in the previous phase and the second will focus on the black boxes and pieces of apparatus. These experts are accompanied by four officers of the French Judicial Police and Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (Ircgn), and a Brazilian Navy officer.
According to BEA, the recovery of bodies and personal belongings of the bodies is the responsibility of judicial officials. Rescue operations are conducted by police in military aviation (GTA), the Coast Guard and aboard the ship Ircgn 'Isla de Sein'.
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