Brazil: Brazil, France deny rift over Air France crash

Brazilian and French officials denied that a rift had opened between their teams examining bodies recovered from an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic.

A spokesman for the regional security office in the northeast Brazilian city of Recife, where autopsies on 49 of the 50 bodies recovered so far were being carried out, said a lack of coordination over procedures seemed to have generated a misunderstanding.

Early Wednesday, Paul-Louis Arslanian, director of the Investigation and Analysis Bureau (BEA), the French body in charge of the technical side of the inquiry, told reporters in Paris he was "not happy" that a BEA medical expert had not been allowed to take part in the postmortem examinations carried out in Brazil.

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