Air France Jet With 228 Passengers Missing

June 1. 2009

An Air France jet from Brazil with 228 passengers, en route to Paris, sent a distress signal before falling off the radar. The jet carried nationals from many countries. My condolences to their families and friends. Theories abound as to what caused the jet's electrical failure, namely lightening. Search teams from France, Brazil, Africa and America are searching for the aircraft.

Victims Include Those Who Flocked to Brazil for Business, and a Royal

SÃO PAULO, Brazil -- The biographies of passengers aboard the disappeared Air France airliner likely will serve as a tragic testament to Brazil's rising importance in global business. Although Brazilian and French authorities have yet to release a detailed passenger manifest, the list is expected to read like a roster of European and Brazilian blue-chip companies, whose executives regularly packed the business- and first-class sections of the trans-Atlantic flight...

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