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2nd body removed from deep-sea Air France crash

(Agencies)
Updated: 2011-05-07 13:41

PARIS - French police say a second body has been removed from the underwater wreckage of the Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean nearly two years ago.

A remote-controlled submarine raised a body that was still strapped into an airline seat some 12,000 feet (3,900 meters) to the water's surface Friday. The remains of another underwater victim were retrieved a day earlier.

Police said the recovery team removed the entire seat from the water with the "greatest dignity under difficult conditions."

Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris went down on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 people aboard. The cause of the crash is not yet known. Fifty other bodies were found in the water shortly after crash.