Investigators of the BEA (the French bur

Investigators of the BEA (the French bureau leading the crash investigation) inspect debris from the mid-Atlantic crash of Air France flight 447 on July 24, 2009 at the CEAT aeronautical laboratory in Toulouse, southern France. The Air France flight from Rio to Paris came down during the night of May 31 to June 1, 2009 during a storm, with the loss of all 228 people on board. The BEA said in a report, based on an initial study of the fragments, that the Airbus A330 was intact when it hit the ocean, but that the cause of the crash was still unknown.
AFP PHOTO ERIC CABANIS (Photo credit should read ERIC CABANIS/AFP/Getty Images)