Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Air France Flight AF447 missing with 228 on board

An Air France plane on its way from Brazil to Paris has gone missing with 228 people on board. Its last known location was unclear. Brazilian television said the Brazilian air force had started a search mission over the Atlantic Ocean for the plane.

Flight AF447 has 216 passengers and 12 crew on board. It left Rio de Janeiro on Sunday at 7pm local time and was expected in Paris on Monday at 11.15am, but it has not. An Air France-KLM spokeswoman in Amsterdam said there had been no radio contact with the missing plane for a while. The plane was an Airbus 330-200.

Air France said relatives of people traveling on board flight AF447 were being taken care of in a special area of Charles de Gaulle airport.

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