Two search ships have set sail from Brazil to hunt for debris and flight and data recorders from an Air France Airbus 330 jetliner that crashed in the Atlantic last year, killing 228 people, a French aviation official said Tuesday.
The U.S. and Norwegian ships left Recife on Monday and are expected to take about two days to reach the search zone, said Martine Del Bono, a spokeswoman for French accident investigation agency BEA. The 30-day operation will use sonar-equipped robot submarines and machines dragged underwater to scour the mountainous seabed, perhaps as many as 13,100 feet (4,000 meters) below the surface.
It is the third attempt to find debris and the jet's data recorders from Air France Flight 447, which crashed June 1, killing everyone aboard.
For more: The Associated Press: Search ships on way to crashed Air France area
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