SAO PAULO, Brazil - Autopsies have revealed fractures in the legs, hips, and arms of Air France disaster victims, injuries that - coupled with the large pieces of wreckage pulled from the Atlantic - strongly suggest the plane broke up in the air, experts said yesterday.
With more than 400 bits of debris recovered, the top French investigator voiced optimism about determining what brought down Flight 447, but he also called the conditions - far from land in deep waters - "one of the worst situations ever known in an accident investigation."
French investigators are beginning to form "an image that is progressively less fuzzy," Paul-Louis Arslanian, who runs the French air accident investigation agency BEA, said at a news conference outside Paris.
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