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Pilot Of Flight 447's Body Found

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Click to enlarge 1 of 5: Air Force and Navy searchers in Brazil work to pull debris from Air France Flight 447 on July 8, 2009, in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Click to enlarge 2 of 5: Brazilian Air Force Officer Henry Nunhoz (center) speaks during a press conference to announce the recovery of more bodies of the 228 victims of the Air France flight, in Recife, Brazil on June 7, 2009.
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Click to enlarge 3 of 5: Rescuers evacuate a body after a Air New Zealand airbus A320 plane crashed on Nov. 27, 2008, offshore Canet-en-Roussillon in Perpignan, southern France.
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Click to enlarge 4 of 5: Front page of the newspaper Extra in Rio de Janeiro on June 2, 2009, reporting on the Air France passenger jet which disappeared on June 1 over the Atlantic while en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
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Click to enlarge 5 of 5: Two relatives of passengers of the ill-fated Air France flight 447 are surrounded by journalists at the hotel where they are being looked after, close to Rio de Janeiro's international airport, Brazil on June 3, 2009.
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Air France says the bodies of the chief pilot of Flight 447 and a flight attendant have been retrieved from the Atlantic.

The airline says in on its Web site that the two are among those identified in the international search operation for remains of the 228 victims and wreckage of the May 31 crash. The airline hasn't identified crew members by name, but a pilots' union named the captain as Marc Dubois.

Earlier this week the international police agency Interpol said 11 of the 50 bodies retrieved have been identified. It says they are eight Brazilians, one with joint Brazilian-German citizenship, one Brazilian-Swiss and a British national.