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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
The fuel slick indicates that it hit the water in one peice. If it was an explosion you would expect the majority of the jet fuel to be burnt up, and any that hit the water would be spread over an even larger area.
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Fuel slick now thought to be not aviation but from a ship although aviation fuel has also been observed.
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"Brig Cardoso said that fuel found in the sea probably did come from the plane, because it was not of a type used in ships.
However he said a large oil slick photographed in the area was more likely to have come from a ship."
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Also, no wreckage has been found contrary to earlier reports.
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Debris recovered from the Atlantic by Brazilian search teams does not come from a lost Air France jet, a Brazilian air force official has said.
Brig Ramon Borges Cardoso contradicted earlier reports that debris had been found, saying "no material from the plane has been recovered".
A wooden cargo pallet was taken from the sea, but the Airbus A330 had no wooden pallets on board.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8083474.stm