Air France Flight 447 Missing June 1st, 2009
An Airbus A330-200 carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew members from Rio de Janeiro to Paris lost contact with air traffic controllers over the Atlantic Ocean. The plane disappeared about 186 miles northeast of the coastal Brazilian city of Natal, near the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, a spokesman with Brazil’s Air Force said. (Airbus)
Air France has confirmed the nationalities of the passengers aboard Air France flight 447, which disappeared over the Atlantic last night.
The Brazilian Authorities have shared this list:
2 American
1 Argentinian
1 Austrian
1 Belgian
58 Brazilian
5 British
1 Canadian
9 Chinese
1 Croatian
1 Danish
1 Dutch
1 Estonian
1 Filipino
61 French
1 Gambian
26 German
4 Hungarian
3 Irish
1 Icelandic
9 Italian
5 Lebanese
2 Moroccan
3 Norwegians
2 Polish
1 Romanian
1 Russian
3 Slovakian
1 South African
2 Spanish
1 Swedish
6 Swiss
1 Turkish
[Source]
- Posted by meiyah
- Tagged Air France Flight 447 Missing, News
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
[...] military ships searching for the black boxes of Flight 447 have detected sounds in the Atlantic depths but they are not from the Air France plane’s [...]