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Permalink Reply by James Jakoplic on June 1, 2009 at 8:55pm

Just heard about it. Very upsetting...

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Permalink Reply by Leone Fabre on June 1, 2009 at 8:56pm

The Airbus which crashed in the Atlantic was carrying 126 men, 82 women, 7 children and one baby, Air France says in a statement.

This is so sad ..... thoughts and prayers to all the families.

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Permalink Reply by bnunuk on June 1, 2009 at 9:16pm

According to the BBC "An Air France plane carrying 228 people from Brazil to France has vanished over the Atlantic after a possible lightning strike, airline officials say."

I thought these planes were more or less protected against lightening strikes? Wonder what the heck went on here. Frightening and sad.

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Permalink Reply by Leone Fabre on June 1, 2009 at 9:43pm

The aircraft hit a zone of stormy weather with strong turbulence at 2am this morning (universal time), i.e. 4am in Paris. An automatic message was received from the aircraft at 2:14am (4 :14am in Paris) indicating a failure in the electric circuit a long way from the coast.

am sure further news as to what happened will be released soon.

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