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Air France Flight AF 447 Status
June 1st, 2009 
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- Unidentified wreckage found in Atlantic hunt for Air France plane that vanished with 228 aboard, Brazil officials say.
- Brazil and France said they would be suspending their search for the missing Air France plane, AF 447, which was carrying 228 people on board and is presumed to have crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, due to poor visibility and would resume on Tuesday.
- Brazil’s second largest airline Tam SA said crew members of one of its flight saw flashes of light over the Atlantic Ocean near where Air France is believed to have plunged to its doom.
- The airline company identified the nationalities of the victims as two Americans, an Argentinean, an Austrian, a Belgian, 58 Brazilians, five British, a Canadian, nine Chinese, a Croatian, a Dane, a Dutch, an Estonian, a Filipino, 61 French, a Gambian, 26 Germans, four Hungarians, three Irish, one Icelandic, nine Italians, five Lebanese, two Moroccans, three Norwegians, two Polish, one Romanian, one Russian, three Slovakian, two Spanish, one Swedish, six Swiss and one Turk.
- The Air France plane that disappeared between Brazil and France with 228 people on board today has almost certainly crashed with no survivors, airline and government officials said.
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy said most of the passengers are Brazilian, and about 40 are French.
- A visibly shaken chief executive officer of Air France has told a press conference at Charles de Gaulle airport the company and nation are in mourning.Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said Air France flight AF447 had reported “the failure of several onboard computer systems” after flying through an area of “extreme turbulence” prior to air traffic controllers loosing contact with it.
- “We can fear the worst,” said French Transportation Minister Jean-Louis Borloo, adding there was “real pessimism at this hour,”
- Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he fears British citizens may be on board the aircraft.
- Air France suggests the electrical fault was probably caused by the plane suffering a lightning strike.
- Air France said relatives of people traveling on board flight AF 447 were being taken care of in a special area of Charles de Gaulle airport.
Air France emergency line number: (outside France) +33 1 57 02 10 55; (in France) 0800 800 812.
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