5 bodies, ticket found near crash site

RECIFE, Brazil: Investigators were combing a huge swath of ocean yesterday in search of more evidence of the doomed Air France Flight 477 after finding 5 bodies of passengers and a briefcase.

The French agency investigating the disaster said on Saturday that airspeed instruments on the plane had not been replaced as the maker recommended, but cautioned that it was too early to draw conclusions about what role that may have played in the crash.

Brazilian officials are focusing on the recovery of victims and plane wreckage, not the plane's black box data and voice recorders, which could reveal why the jet crashed. Finding the black boxes is the mission of the French government, with help from the United States.