SAN FRANCISCO--
The only thing we know for sure is that a catastrophic event took down Air France Flight 447 over the Atlantic Ocean. Was it an accident? Was it terrorism? We may never know.
Now comes the news from the Brazilian air force that debris picked up Thursday near where officials believe the Airbus crashed into the Atlantic was not from the plane.
"It has been verified that the material did not belong to the plane," Brig. Ramon Borges Cardoso told reporters in Recife, Brazil, about the material recovered Thursday. "It is a pallet of wood that is utilized for transport. It is used in planes, but on this flight to Paris, there was no wooden pallet."
The announcement left open the question of whether other debris that had not yet been plucked from the ocean might be from the plane.
As the mystery of AF flight 447 intensifies, media coverage has become more pronounced.
Although President Obama's speech in Egypt and his subsequent trip to Germany dominated the network news, the tragic events involving the downed Air France jetliner received extensive play, particularly on the net, and in French media quarters.
The BBC sent a huge team of reporters and technicians to the scene, as did CBN, the Canadien Broadcasting network.
Most of the news networks here in the US have concentrated on the Obama visit to the Middle East and Germany, but the latest developments of the Air France tragedy have altered the coverage.
Fox News' Geraldo Riveria and Greta Van Susteren are said to be mulling plans to go to the scene for further, expanded coverage.
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