Air France flight pieces still missing

PARIS: France's transportation minister said on Friday that French forces have found no signs of the Airbus A330 airplane that vanished over the Atlantic and urged "extreme prudence" about suspected debris taken from the ocean.

Dominique Bussereau said he regretted that an announcement by Brazilian teams that they had recovered plane debris from Air France flight 447 turned out to be false.

The Brazilian air force announced on Thursday afternoon that a helicopter plucked an airplane cargo pallet from the sea, but then said six hours later that it was not from the Airbus and was just sea trash.