Air France flight 447 disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, with 228 people on board. Some wreckage was found in the mid-Atlantic within days of the plane’s disappearance, and about 50 bodies were recovered from the ocean’s surface in the following weeks. However, the fuselage and flight data recorders were not located until 2011. The search mission was led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, which had been involved in discovering the wreck of the Titanic in 1985. The Air France plane was found nearly 2.5 miles (4 km) underwater. According to reports, 104 bodies were retrieved from the ocean floor; 74 bodies were never found.
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