Distraught relatives have been going through days of anguish Two bodies have been found from the Air France plane which went missing over the Atlantic last Monday, the Brazilian air force has said. Items including a case with a ticket for the flight were also picked up some 1,100km (683 miles) off Brazil's coast. Air France said it was stepping up replacement of speed monitors on Airbus planes, amid speculation that a faulty indication may have caused the crash. All 228 people on board the Airbus 330 are believed to have been killed. The AF Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared in turbulent weather about 800km (500 miles) north-east of Brazil's Fernando de Noronha islands. Blue seat "We confirm the recovery from the water of debris and bodies from the Air France plane," air force spokesman Jorge Amaral told reporters in the northern city of Recife on Saturday. See a map of the plane's route He later added that two male bodies had been found, as well as objects linked to passengers known to be on the flight, including a suitcase with an Air France ticket and a backpack with a computer inside. "It was confirmed with Air France that the ticket number corresponds to a passenger on the flight," Col Amaral said. A blue seat was also found, and Air France is checking the serial number to see whether it came from the flight. The remains were found not far from where the last signal from the plane was received, and taken to the islands of Fernando de Noronha. Experts on human remains are on their way to examine the find. Speed sensors The items were the first to be definitely linked to the plane, nearly six days after the crash. SEARCH FOR FLIGHT AF 447 1 June: Contact lost with plane over mid-Atlantic 2 June: First debris spotted from the air includes an airline seat. Brazilian defence minister says debris is from missing plane 3 June: More debris spotted, including a 7m-wide chunk of metal. Fuel slick seen on ocean surface 4 June: Buoys and pallet recovered from ocean said to be from plane. Officials later retract statement 6 June: First two bodies, plus suitcase and backpack found, along with seat thought to be from the plane
Timeline of Flight AF 447 Air disasters timeline Mystery of Air France flight Challenge of deep-sea debris But the BBC's Gary Duffy in Sao Paulo says the authorities are adopting a cautious approach after previous reports of debris being found proved false. Correspondents say that much of the search effort so far has been focused on finding flight data recorders, which have sonar beacons - or "pingers" - attached to them. But French officials say there was no guarantee the beacons were still attached to the flight recorders, and they may have been separated in the impact of the crash. The officials do not know what triggered the plane's problems, but it was flying through an area of thunder storms and turbulence. They said it sent 24 error messages minutes before it crashed. Air France said in a statement on Saturday that the plane had been using speed sensors that had been associated with problems in the past. The company said that it had begun noticing problems arising from icing on its Airbus long-haul aircraft more than a year ago and that it had begun changing its airspeed sensors on 27 April - five weeks before the accident. "Without prejudging a link with the causes of the accident, Air France has accelerated this programme," Air France said in a statement. It added that this did not necessarily mean the aircraft was not safe to fly. A French submarine is being sent to join in the search. It has sonar equipment that could help locate the airliner's flight data recorders. The US is also sending specialised listening equipment. Click here to return
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Flight path of Air France Flight 447 on 31 May/1 June. The solid red line shows actual route, the dashed line is the planned route after the last radar contact. The Brazilian Air Force has located  bodies and wreckage of  in the . At least two bodies have been recovered so far.

Brazilian Air Force Colonel Jorge Amaral confirmed that search teams had recovered 2 male bodies and wreckage including a seat, briefcase, oxygen mask, laptop computer and a ticket stub issued to a passenger from the flight. He added that experts on human remains were traveling to the recovery site to examine the findings. The 228 people on board the aircraft are presumed dead. 

Previously retrieved debris from the likely vicinity of the airplane's disappearance was yesterday revealed to actually be trash from passing ships. A wooden cargo pallet and two buoys had been recovered, but are now believed to have been from a ship.
Jorge Amaral  confirming that search team recovered 2 bodies
Air France flight 447, traveling from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to , disappeared on June 1 over the Atlantic Ocean. The  was last heard via radio at 22:30 local time (01:30 UTC) on June 1 and vanished from radar approximately  off the Brazilian coast.

The cause of the crash is not yet known. Earlier today it was revealed by French authorities that Flight 447's plane sent 24 error messages shortly before it disappeared. They also said that the plane's auto-pilot was not active, although they say that from the error messages it is impossible to determine the reason for it being inactive. The crash is said to be the world's worst aviation disaster since 2001.