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Kinged
06-08-2009, 04:20 PM
The two airports involved have been caring for relatives and friends of those aboard the missing plane


An Air France plane carrying 228 people from Brazil to France has vanished over the Atlantic after flying into turbulence, airline officials say.

The Airbus sent an automatic message at 0214 GMT, four hours after leaving Rio de Janeiro, reporting a short circuit. It may have been damaged by lightning.

It was well over the ocean when it was lost, making Brazilian and French search planes' task more difficult.

France's president said the chances of finding survivors were "very small".

"It is a catastrophe the likes of which Air France has never seen," Nicolas Sarkozy said after meeting relatives and friends of passengers at a crisis centre at Charles de Gaulle airport.

Earlier, Air France chief executive Pierre-Henri Gourgeon told reporters: "We are without a doubt faced with an air disaster."

He added: "The entire company is thinking of the families and shares their pain."

Flight AF 447 left Rio at 1900 local time (2200 GMT) on Sunday. It had 216 passengers and 12 crew on board, including three pilots. The passengers included one infant, seven children, 82 women and 126 men.
Beachside
06-08-2009, 04:22 PM
That stinks and is very tragic.
Kinged
06-08-2009, 04:30 PM
yeah so many die :(
PureSkiller
06-08-2009, 04:34 PM
You know , I'm not lieing at all with this, I wouldn't dare but ..

My dad & my mom (they're divorced) and they have a friend who they both know, and he, his wife & his kid used to be on that plane. They normally wanted to go back with that plane but his kid would be to much alone cause he would miss 5 weeks his friends. So they planned their flight back earlier.

So yeah, He said "Now we laugh at this but if we were on the plane .."
Nordinwanabe
06-08-2009, 04:41 PM
You know , I'm not lieing at all with this, I wouldn't dare but ..

My dad & my mom (they're divorced) and they have a friend who they both know, and he, his wife & his kid used to be on that plane. They normally wanted to go back with that plane but his kid would be to much alone cause he would miss 5 weeks his friends. So they planned their flight back earlier.

So yeah, He said "Now we laugh at this but if we were on the plane .."


wow.

i also read on yahoo that there was a man who was supposed to go on that flight but the taxi man who took him there has to hurry to see a match so he left him there 4 hours earlier than his normal flight time. and when that man got there he went and checked in and found out that there is an earlier plane and he took that one. that taxi driver saved his life...

you never know how stuff you dont expect to be usefull are life saving...

~Nordin
Kinged
06-08-2009, 05:05 PM
wow he born lucky.
camz
06-08-2009, 08:20 PM
i was only a 40-50min drive away when it took off cause i was on holiday there wit me 2 sis's and mum (well there not realy my mum or sis's cause im adopted
geegee man
06-08-2009, 09:07 PM
Wow,I heard about this on the news and they've found 17 more bodies from the plane crash...very sad :(
Bob Dole
06-08-2009, 10:37 PM
was Bermuda Triangle involved?
Marisa
06-08-2009, 10:47 PM
Wait, I know that the plane went missing. But now they've confirmed that it crashed and they're finding bodies? Is that what happened? Sorry, I got kind of lost.
Masterplay247
06-09-2009, 12:17 AM
very tragic hopefully dosent happen again and its werid how somethings can save ure life
Kinged
06-09-2009, 06:01 AM
that plane is not find like 5 days or more.
Jordan
06-09-2009, 06:22 AM
Hopefully this won't happen again.
Johno
06-09-2009, 06:26 AM
Heard about this, It's very tragic.
I hope the families are helped out.
Configure
06-09-2009, 06:28 PM
Damn, how sad... just think about what them poor people were going through. :(
Boylight
06-10-2009, 11:59 AM
They better find the black box.