RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian military planes spotted debris in the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday that could be wreckage of a missing Air France flight carrying 228 people that apparently crashed in a storm the previous day.
Air force pilots saw metallic objects, plane seats, an orange buoy and jet fuel stains in the water about 650 km (400 miles) north of the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha off Brazil's northeastern coast.
The area is near where the last contact was made with the flight that took off for Paris from Rio de Janeiro on Sunday night and went missing in storms about four hours later without sending any distress signal.
Brazil's air force last had contact with the plane at 0133 GMT on Monday when it was 565 km (350 miles) from Brazil's coast. The last automated signals were received at 0214 GMT.
If no survivors are found, it would be the worst disaster in Air France's 75-year history and the deadliest since one of the company's supersonic Concorde planes crashed in 2000.
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