Jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who disappeared in the night because it entered an area of strong turbulence may be crashed to the Atlantic Ocean, the CEO of Air France said Monday. Photos from the Airbus 330 that went missing through the Atlantic early Monday. 1 of 3 the first three months of what has been an 11-hour flight was uneventful, CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said.
But about 4:15 Paris time, Flight 447 the system automatically starts the exchange of the four minute message to a computer maintenance company, shows that "some part of the equipment in the aircraft or dirobohkan have been a mistake," he said. "This signals that the message succession totally unforeseeable, big trouble," he said. "Something that is quite new in the plane." During that time, there is no contact with the crew, Gourgeon said. "It may be that he was a little after that a message that the impact of aircraft took place in the Atlantic," he added. He said Airbus A330 may be closer to Africa from Brazil when crashed.
He noted that the turbulence created fly "difficult" in the area but "too early to say" what happened. Opportunity to find any survivors is "very low," French President Nicolas Sarkozy admitted Monday. "This is a catastrophe like the Air France who had never seen before," he said at Charles de Gaulle International Airport, where he met with the families who lost. "I said to them the truth: The prospects for finding survivors are very low," he said.
Aviation companies identify the nationality of the victims as two United States, an Argentina, an Austrian, a Belgian, 58 Brazilians, five British, one Canadian, nine Chinese, a Croatian, one Danish, Dutch, an Estonian, the Philippines, France 61, the Gambian, 26 German, four Hungarians, three Irish, one Icelandic, Italian, nine, five Lebanese, two Moroccans, three Norwegians, two Polish, one Romanian, one Russian, Slovakian three, two Spanish, one Swedish, one Swiss and six Turkish .
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