Crews Find Key Part In Air France Crash

US Team to Search for Plane's Black Boxes
By BRADLEY BROOKS, AP

Brazil (June 9) - The recovery of Air France Flight 447's tail section could provide key clues as to why the airliner with 228 people on board went down in the Atlantic and where best to search for the black boxes, experts said.

The tail section includes the vertical stabilizer — which keeps the plane's nose from swinging back and forth — and the rudder, which generates and controls the side-to-side motion of an aircraft.

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