Ubelievable that this hasn't made headlines here at all.

Possibility: Missing Air France Flight 447 may never be found
As this week comes to a close, it is still unclear what happened to Air France Flight 447. In fact, less is clear on Friday than on Tuesday, when investigators had said they'd found the wreckage from the crash.

It appears that Brazilian and French authorities are in disagreement over whether certain pieces of wreckage came from the downed plane.

The Airbus A330 disappeared en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on late-Sunday-early-Monday, carrying 228 people.

The U.K. Times reports that time is running out, even as authorities bicker:

Hope of finding remains from the downed Air France Flight 447 Airbus were fading tonight as investigators confirmed that faulty instrument readings had played a role in the crash in the Atlantic which apparently killed all 228 aboard.

French Ministers voiced frustration after the Brazilian forces said they had been mistaken in identifying flotsam collected from the ocean as coming from the Airbus A330 that disappeared in a storm on Monday on a flight from Rio to Paris.

They also said that they had mis-identified a fuel slick on the surface.

"Time is against us," said Dominique Bussereau, the Transport Minister. "We must do everything we can to find the flight recorders and certainly enlarge the search zone," he said.


About one hour ago, the Associated Press released a disheartening update on a story being watched around the globe:

Days after Air France Flight 447 vanished, an intensive international effort has failed to recover any confirmed wreckage and concern grew Friday about whether searchers were even looking in the right place.

Air France, meanwhile, told its pilots in a memo obtained by The Associated Press that it is replacing instruments that affect flight speed in all its bigger jets. Investigators have focused on the equipment's possible role in the disaster.

The AP has more than 10 reporters dedicated to covering the story.

And finally, the mystery gets even deeper when considering that at least 12 other planes flew similar routes and had no problems, reports Scott Bronstein, of CNN's Special Investigations Unit.

Airlines confirmed that at least a dozen aircraft departed roughly at the same time and traversed approximately the same route, but did not report problematic weather conditions. This has led some aviation experts to suggest that technical problems on the airplane might be the main cause of the crash, though they may have combined with weather conditions to create serious problems.