Brazil's air force confirmed the plane was missing and said a search and rescue mission was under way near the island of Fernando de Noronha.
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If that is where the search is, the plane apparently didn't get very far in its flight.
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The search is near fernando de noronha,brazil. That’s an island over 300 miles off the coast. Extremely unlikely that fuel or weather is a factor as that’s only about 2 hours into the flight and well into the cruise phase. The lack of communication means whatever happened was probably sudden.
Brazil's air force confirmed the plane was missing and said a search and rescue mission was under way near the island of Fernando de Noronha.
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If that is where the search is, the plane apparently didn't get very far in its flight.
Notre père, qui êtes aux cieux!
Que votre nom soit sanctificié. Que votre règne vienne.
Que votre volonté soit faite, sur la terre comme au ciel.
Donnez-nous aujourd'hui notre poindre ce jour.
Pardonnez-nous nos offenses, comme nous pardonnons aussi a ceux, qui nous ont offensés,
et ne nous soumetez pas à la tentation, mais délivrez-nous du mal.
Car c'est à toi qu'appartiènne, le régne, la puissance et la gloire, pour les siècles des siècles.
Amen.
Je vous salue, Marie, pleine de grâces,
le Seigneur est avec vous, vous êtes bénie entre toutes les femmes,
et Jésus le fruit de vos entrailles est béni.
Sainte Marie, Mère de Dieu, priez pour nous pauvres pécheurs,
maintenant, et à l'heure de notre mort. Ainsi-soit-il.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
My son was on an Air France just yesterday. USA to Paris, to Italy with 20 other college students. My prayers for the fallen passengers.
The Telegraph says 231 on board.
How awful!!!
And too often these crashes happend in threes. Two to go.
BULLETIN — AIR FRANCE SAYS PLANE SENT MESSAGE THAT IT HAD ELECTRICAL SHORT-CIRCUIT AFTER STRONG TURBULENCE.
Oh dear!
CNN International
Paris Airport still showing flight as ‘delayed’.
However, government officials are indicating that they expect the worst and are setting up accordingly. A family notification center is being set up, etc.
Did it fly into a storm it shouldn’t have?
We’re sometimes victims of two kinds of mistakes in this life: other peoples’ and our own.
Last contact with Air France jet off Brazil coast 8:18am EDT Brazil air force starts search for Air France jet 7:03am EDT Missing plane out of fuel by now: French minister 7:19am EDT Featured Broker sponsored link By Estelle Shirbon
PARIS (Reuters) - An Air France plane with 228 people on board went missing on its way from Brazil to Paris on Monday, after hitting strong turbulence, prompting military jets to take off from both sides of the Atlantic to search for it.
Air France said in a statement the plane sent an automatic message reporting an electrical short-circuit at 0214 GMT, roughly 15 minutes after flying into the turbulence.
Senior French minister Jean-Louis Borloo ruled out the possibility of a hijacking of the flight AF 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
"There was very, very strong turbulence. For now we can't understand what happened," Borloo, the second most senior in the government, said on France Info radio.
"Apparently the possibility of a hijacking has been excluded," Borloo said.
Just heard this on the radio, prayers going up for a miracle!!!
Strange reports - now i heard that the plane went thru a thunderstorm and may have flown for several hours afterward
bttt
Map of the route and area where Air France flight AF447 vanished from radar. Source: Guardian
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