The remains of one of the victims of the Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil nearly two years ago was brought to the surface Thursday after being found among the wreckage, French authorities said, according to dpa. The body, which had lain at the bottom of the ocean since the June 2009 crash, and was still strapped to a seat, was in a "degraded" state, the French gendarmerie, which is charge of the operation, said in a statement. Marine police investigators planned to take samples from the remains to see whether DNA testing could be done to establish the victim's identity. But the operation to retrieve the bodies - several of which were spotted among the wreckage - was "particularly complex", raising questions about the "feasibility" of the operation, the gendarmerie said. The wreckage of the Airbus A330, which crashed in mysterious circumstances, while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1, 2009, was located by deep-sea robots at the beginning of April about 1,500 kilometres off the coast of Brazil. It was the fourth attempt to locate the plane. Several bodies were found among the wreckage. Investigators' first priority, however, was to retrieve the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders, which were brought to surface on Sunday and Monday and which could provide vital clues about the cause of the crash. After the crash, around 50 bodies had been found in the water.
