Navy spokeswoman Liva Veita told the AFP news agency that "11 pieces of airplane debris were found in the sea, including fragments of airplane seats and some possible baggage items like shoes." ...

Ballard's team used special "side-scan" sonar to map anomalies on the sea floor, then sent a robotic submersible to investigate the most promising sites. At 311 feet, the submersible found a ...

The new research, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, adds new details to earlier research that only discovered plastic bits in sea ... they found a rainbow of plastic items.