Air France Searchers Recover 75 Bodies

A French search team has pulled another 75 victims of the Air France Flight 447 crash out of the briny depths in recent days, a spokesman for the French military police said today. He would not say what condition the bodies were in, but Reuters notes that the first two bodies recovered from the crash—who were found still strapped to their airline seats at a depth of 12,800 feet—were well-preserved thanks to the icy temperatures at that depth.

“Seventy-five bodies have been brought up but operations are still going on and we'll have to wait for the end of the search for a final figure,” the spokesman said. All 228 people aboard the flight were killed in the mysterious crash, but only 50 bodies were found floating in the water; the rest are believed to be with the recently discovered main part of the plane's wreckage. (More Air France Flight 447 stories.)