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Searchers Find Second Air France Crash Flight Recorder

Search parties scouring the sea bed off Brazil’s northeast coast have recovered the second of two flight recorders from the Air France aircraft that crashed into the Atlantic in June 2009, investigators said on Tuesday. The discovery of the audio …

Deep Sea Search Locates, Recovers Air France Flight Data Recorder

Deep sea search parties have found one of two flight data recorders from an Air France plane that crashed off the coast of Brazil in 2009, investigators said on Sunday, reviving hopes of understanding what caused the crash. French investigators …

Weather Forecasters Agree on Active 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season

Weather Service International [WSI] forecasters predicted an active 2011 Atlantic hurricane season Tuesday, with 15 named storms, eight of which are expected to become hurricanes. Of these, four are expected to develop into major hurricanes of Category 3 or higher …

‘Above Average’ 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast

The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season will be above average with nine hurricanes, five of them major, with a more than 70 percent chance that at least one of them will hit the U.S. coastline, Colorado State University forecasters predicted Wednesday. …