Air France Flight 447 (Rio de Janeiro Brazil – Paris France) Airbus A330-200 Plane Crash Missing in Atlantic (Bermuda Triangle)

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Air France Plane Crash, Air France Flight 447 (Brazil – Paris) Airbus A330-200 Plane Crash Missing in Atlantic (Bermuda Triangle). A missing Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris ran into lightning and strong thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean, officials said Monday. Brazil began a search mission off its northeastern coast.the Air France flight AF447 left the Rio de Janeiro airport, and it should have landed at the Paris airport at 09:15 GMT. The pilots of the Airbus A330-200 plane reported a technical fault at the electric circuit, and that they are experiencing turbulence. After that, the AF447 flight has gone missing and there are no news yet.

Air France Flight 447 A330-200 Plane Crash Missing in Atlantic

The AF Airbus A330 had 216 passengers and 12 crew, the Brazilian officials said that the pilots last reported something at 11 P.M. local time when they were near the island of Fernando de Noronha. This is at about 1,5000 northeast of Rio de Janeiro, between the city of Natal and the island of Ilha do Sal. The plane “crossed through a thunderous zone with strong turbulence” at 0200 GMT Monday (10 p.m. EDT Sunday). An automatic message was received fourteen minutes later “signaling electrical circuit malfunction.”

French President Nicolas Sarkozy expressed his “extreme worry” and planned to visit the Charles de Gaulle airport later Monday.

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