RECIFE, Brazil — The urgent hunt for the black boxes of Air France Flight 447 received a boost Wednesday — a French nuclear submarine scoured the search area, listening for the data and voice recorders’ pings before they fade away.
Brazilian searchers in charge of recovering floating bodies and debris said the surface search area widened into Senegalese waters.
L’Express magazine reported that French intelligence services had matched the names of two passengers with those of suspects linked to Islamic terrorism. But it noted the passengers’ birth dates were not available, and that it might only be a case of people with similar names.
Other police and intelligence agencies involved said they had no information about terrorist connections to Flight 447.
Officials said 41 bodies have been recovered.
