Air France Crash 2009
Air France Crash 2009, Air France jet crashes and 228 feared dead. An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris is believed to have crashed into the Atlantic on Monday after suffering an electrical failure in a fierce storm.
It is confirmed that all 228 people were killed, it would mark the worst loss of life in Air France’s history and civil aviation’s worst accidental disaster for more than a decade.
Air France said that on air france flight 447 among 216 passengers, there are 126 men, 82 women, seven children and a baby. The crew was made up of 12 members, including nice cabin crew. In Rio, Air France spokesman Jorge Asuncao said there were 80 Brazilian passengers, 73 French, 18 Germans, nine Italians, six Americans, five Chinese,, four Hungarians, two Spanish, two British, two Moroccans and two Irish.
“The most likely thing is that the plane was hit by lightning. The plane was in a stormy area with strong turbulence, which provoked problems,” said Francois Brousse, Air France’s director of communications.
Airbus said the A330 has a good safety record- there have never been fatalities on a commercial flight – but in 1994 one crashed during a test flight in southern France, killing seven people on board.
