[Cindy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8076848.stm

Page last updated at 11:01 GMT, Monday, 1 June 2009 12:01 UK

“French plane lost over Atlantic”

SNIPPET: “Brazilian air force spokesman Col Henry Munhoz told Brazilian TV it had failed to be picked up by radar on the Cape Verde Islands on its way across the Atlantic.

“Air Force planes left Fernando de Noronha and are flying towards Europe to start the search for the missing plane,” he said.
Flight AF 447 left Rio at 1900 local time (2200 GMT) on Sunday. It had 216 passengers and 12 crew on board, including three pilots.”

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An official with the French government’s transport agency said contact with the plane was lost at 0220 GMT Monday (10:20 p.m. EDT Sunday). The official was not authorized to be named according to agency policy.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,523701,00.html

[Cindy]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090601/wl_nm/us_france_plane

File photo of 2 Air France Planes here:

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Two-Air-France-passenger-planes-Charles-Gaulle-airport-Paris-Air/photo//090601/photos_wl_afp/c12c9ce9608cc96adb9c6c1d69e31ca9//s:/nm/20090601/wl_nm/us_france_plane;_ylt=A2KIKvnetiNKCCoA1YJn.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTE5cmpkODU5BHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bl9yX3RvcF9waG90bwRzbGsDYWlyZnJhbmNlamV0

[Cindy]

FOX NEWS.com: "AIR FRANCE BOMB THREAT BEFORE FLIGHT 447 CRASH" (SNIPPET: "Brazilian authorities reportedly delayed an Air France flight from Buenos Aires to Paris after the airline received a bomb threat over the phone, just days before the mysterious crash of Flight 447 over the Atlantic Ocean.") (June 3, 2009)