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Debris spotted by planes 650km (400 miles) off Brazil's coast belongs to a missing French airliner, Brazilian and French officials have confirmed.

A search plane saw a band of wreckage in a 5km (3 mile) strip, Brazil's Defence Minister Nelson Jobim said.

A Brazilian navy ship is expected to arrive in the area shortly to begin the task of recovering wreckage.

Flight AF 447 was heading from Rio to Paris with 228 people on board when it was lost early on Monday.

France is to hold religious ceremonies to remember the missing, while three days of national mourning have been declared in Brazil.

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• 06/03/09
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