According France 2, at 3.30 AM (French time), the pilot was in conversation with their company and was reporting hard turbulance and the conversation was cut off
“Run out of gas?”
It had just taken off
“Weather?”
There are reports of possible turbulance
If it ran out of gas it probably did not run out of radio before it went down. “Lost contact” sounds more like a sudden termination- fumes in the center tank, maybe. Doesn’t the Koran say something about such fumes?
Ironic that a “high ranking al Qaeda” operative was arrested in Brazil just last week
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258816/posts
...Alien abduction over the Bermuda Triangle???
(Radio Netherlands) France has asked the US military to use its network of spy satellites and listening stations to help find an Air France jet that disappeared over the Atlantic, French defence ministry officials said on Monday evening.
An aide to French Defence Minister Herve Morin said he would soon speak with his US counterpart, Defence Secretary Robert Gates, to discuss which of the Pentagon’s other military assets might be of use in the hunt for the plane.
According to an article just released on FoxNews, the crew reported severe electrical problems, leading the President of Air France to speculate that the airliner might have been struck by lightning, as it was flying through a thunderstorm at the time.
Bermuda Triangle.