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Air France flight 447

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  • Died Jun 01, 2009
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An Air France plane flying from Rio de Janeiro to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris has gone missing. There were 228 people on board
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Search planes scoured the dark waters of the Atlantic Ocean early on Tuesday, looking for the remains of an Air France jetliner that disappeared in a severe storm with 228 people on board.


The Airbus A330 went missing on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris and French President Nicolas Sarkozy said there was little chance of finding any survivors.

France and Brazil sent military aircraft and ships to try to find wreckage on high seas between Brazil and West Africa.

Brazilian carrier TAM said the crew of one of its planes saw "bright spots" on the surface of the ocean, but Brazil's air force said a merchant ship in the area found no signs of burning debris from the Air France jet.

"We will search all night long and keep going through dawn," said Colonel Jorge Amaral of the Brazilian air force. "We have to work as if it were possible to find survivors."

If none are found, it would be the worst disaster in Air France's 75-year history and the deadliest since one of the company's supersonic Concorde planes crashed in 2000.

Air France flight 447 left Brazil on Sunday night and lost contact with air traffic controllers in the early hours of Monday morning.

It was carrying 216 passengers of 32 nationalities, including seven children and one baby, Air France said. Sixty-one were French citizens, 58 Brazilian and 26 German. Twelve crew members were also on board.



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DaveGuy666 Jan 05, 2012

Rest in peace to the 228 passengers onboard and to Air France flight 447. We love you Air France flight 447 and we will keep you safe in our heart, always keep you safe in our heart at all costs no matter what happens. Dear flight attendants of Air France, I'm sorry for your loss of flight 447. This is a memorial memory for Air France flight 447, all passengers onboard and crew members of that flight. So sad, extremely sad. R.I.P.

:-)

K.Bhargav.Thantry Nov 29, 2011

As I am die hard aviation enthusiast I had kept a close watch on the investigations of AF447 crash. My heart and mind goes to the relatives of the victims. Its so difficult to digest the fact that the plane had disappered over the Atlantic taking 228 souls with it by looking at the planes last picture which was shot on 31st May 2009, a day before the crash.
I just cant imagine what would have been going in the heart and mind of all those people who were waiting for the loved ones when the news about the planes crash broke out...!!!
R.I.P to all the 228 souls and to the A330.

Jean-Claude Lozouet

Eric Richard Oct 12, 2011

I was in France. I was maybe 19 or 20 years old. I told my mother I would go to Brazil with Jean-Claude who was leaving soon to live there.. It was more than 30 years ago. He was such a gentle person, a gentleman in his own way. I don't know why, I was Googling his name 2 months ago, in the middle of the night, and when I read with horror the news, I couldn't believe it. I sent the rest of the night remembering him, the good time we shared, with him and my older brother...Sad. So sad..... http://static.respectance.com/m1/memories/92nokn3bmfe7ml_s.png

I pray for you to come home

R Apr 05, 2011

Following the discovery of the wreckage yesterday, it brings back the overwhelming shock and sadness of the AF tragedy of 2009. I had the priviledge of knowing one of the passengers and she has never been far from my mind since. I go to sleep tonight praying that this discovery can bring some kind of peace to some of the families of this disaster. As difficult, upsetting and disturbing i'm sure this new news has been for them today, i hope it can bring some good with it too. God bless the search teams and give them the strength to give the next few weeks work all their energy in the hope of some victims getting the chance to return to their homeland and receive the proper goodbye that they deserve. The chance for the families to be able to say goodbye in a less surreal way than was forced upon them. God bless all the passengers of 447, i pray that they didnt suffer and that they are in a better place and most especially god bless their families who they had to leave behind before their time.

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