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On 1 June 2009 Air France Flight 447, with 228 passengers and crew aboard, disappeared over the South Atlantic during a night flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. An international air and surface search effort located the first floating debris during the sixth day of search. Three phases of unsuccessful search for the underwater wreckage ensued. Phase I was a passive acoustic search for the aircraft's...