Air France Flight 447: Weather worsens as search goes on

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Air France Flight 447: Weather worsens as search goes on

The Brazilian Air Force transports a corpse from a chopper at the Fernando de Noronha airport on June 9. The helicopter carried the first human remains recovered from the downed jet. (EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images)

The Brazilian military continues to search in the Atlantic Ocean for debris and bodies from Air France Flight 447, which crashed on June 1, killing 228 people.

The search area is nearly 843 miles from Recife, Brazil. Weather reports say that visibility will become worse, but has not yet compromised the search.

So far, 41 bodies have been found. The first 16 are being transported to the mainland on Wednesday to be identified. Another 25 bodies are still on a ship and should be lifted by helicopters on Thursday.

Other developments:

U.S. airlines are installing new speed sensors on long-haul Airbus planes and have been doing so since before the crash. Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and US Airways Group said that they were changing the sensors, or pitot tubes, upon Airbus' recommendation. (Reuters)

The news surrounding the crash has centered a lot on pitot tubes. A pitot tube is a slender tube with two holes that is "used in wind-tunnel experiments and on airplanes to measure flow speed." (Scientific American)

A French nuclear submarine has joined the hunt for the downed jet's black boxes. Meanwhile, ocean currents have pushed the pieces of the plane far and wide. (Associated Press)

The Direction G�n�rale de la S�curit� Ext�rieure, the French equivalent of the CIA, have found that two of the names of on the passenger list of the doomed plane are also on a list of radical Muslims who were considered a threat to France. (Sky News)

Coverage timeline:

Airbus A330 disappears over Atlantic

Air France disappearance (video from AP)

Two Americans were on board Air France flight 447 (list of nationalities)

Air France flight 447: What role did lightning play?

Timeline of the disappearance of Air France flight 447

Hunch prompted Dutch man to cancel flight on Air France 447

Air France 447: Who was on board? Will the mystery be solved?

Air France 447: Searchers find life jacket, seat, some fuel

Airbus.com, AirFrance.com pages reflect flight 447 crash

Airbus A380 route expansions dampened by A330 mystery crash

Wreckage in Atlantic is that of Air France flight 447