Air France has told families of passengers on Flight 447 that the jetliner broke apart and they must abandon hope that anyone survived, a grief counselor said Thursday as military aircraft tried to narrow their search for the remains of the plane.
Air France's CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon told families in a private meeting that the plane broke apart either in the air or when it slammed into the ocean and there were no survivors, according to Guillaume Denoix de Saint-Marc, who was asked by Paris prosecutors to help counsel relatives. The plane, carrying 228 people, disappeared after leaving Rio de Janeiro for Paris on Sunday nigh
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The Air France missing happened on Monday after dropping off radar."The plane disappeared from the screens several hours ago.
t..It could be a transponder problem, but this kind of fault is very rare and the plane did not land when expected," a Paris airport official told AFP.
Air traffic control lost contact with the Airbus A330 at 0600 GMT shortly after it took off from Rio de Janeiro bound for Charles de Gaulle airp
ort in Paris, where it had been due to land at 0910 GMT.Airport authorities have set up a crisis cell at Charles de Gaulle. Some 215 people were on board.
By now, the flight recorders from Air France Flight 447 could be scattered nearly anywhere across a vast undersea mountain range that lies as much as four miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
Courtesy: Press TV
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