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French minister warns about alleged Airbus debris
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-06-05 16:27

PARIS – France's transportation minister says French forces have found no evidence of an Airbus A330 airplane that vanished over the Atlantic and is urging "extreme prudence" about suspected debris fished from the ocean.

French minister warns about alleged Airbus debris
Soldiers load boxes labeled in Portuguese 'Bag for corpse' at the base of search operations for the missing Air France Flight 447 in Fernando de Noronha, Brazil, Thursday, June 4, 2009.  [Agencies] 

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

He told RTL radio on Friday that the search must continue and stressed that the priority is finding the flight recorders. The plane went down Sunday night with 228 people aboard.

Confusion broke out Thursday after the Brazilian Air Force said a helicopter plucked a cargo pallet from the sea that came from the plane, but six hours later said it was not from the Airbus.