Air France Flight 447 Missing

Air France flight 447 with 228 people on board has apparently crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Monday. Read more on Air France flight 447 below.

Air France has stated that the Airbus flew into bad weather four hours after its scheduled take-off and shortly afterwards sent an automatic message reporting electrical faults.

Company spokesman Francois Brousse said the Air France plane’s mechanisms had malfunctioned, making them unable to contact air traffic controllers.

“It is probably a combination of circumstances that could have led to the crash,” he said.

Many speculate the Air France plane could have been struck by lightning.

The plane was far out over the the sea when it went missing, and military planes took off from both Brazil and Africa to search for the missing plane.

Flight AF 447 departed Rio de Janeiro on Sunday at 7 p.m. and was expected to land at Paris’s Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport on Monday at 11:15 a.m.

The plane was carrying 216 passengers on board, including seven children and one baby, and 12 crew members.

Distraught relatives and friends were led away by airport staff after they arrived at Roissy expecting to greet the passengers.

Senior French government minister Jean-Louis Borloo ruled out the possibility of a hijacking.

“It’s an awful tragedy,” he told France Info radio.

It is now being reported that eight Chinese nationals were also onboard the Air France passenger plane missing over the Atlantic off the Brazilian coast.

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