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An Air France plane carrying 228 people from
Brazil to France has vanished over the Atlantic after flying into turbulence,
airline officials say.
The Airbus sent an automatic message at 0214 GMT, four hours after leaving Rio
de Janeiro, reporting a short circuit. It may have been damaged by lightning.
It was well over the ocean when it was lost, making Brazilian and French search
planes' task more difficult.
France's president said the chances of finding survivors were "very small".
"It is a catastrophe the likes of which Air France
has never seen," Nicolas Sarkozy said after meeting relatives and friends of
passengers at a crisis centre at Charles de Gaulle airport.
Earlier, Air France chief executive Pierre-Henri Gourgeon told reporters: "We
are without a doubt faced with an air disaster."
He added: "The entire company is thinking of the families and shares their pain."
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. The passengers included
one infant, seven children, 82 women and 126 men.
Some 60 Brazilians are said to have been aboard.
Other passengers included between 40 and 60 French people, and at least 20
Germans, the French government said.
Six Danes, five Italians, three Moroccans and two Libyans are also believed to
have been aboard. Two passengers were from the Republic of Ireland, one was an
Irish citizen from Northern Ireland and two were from the UK.
Lightning theory doubts
The Airbus 330-200 had been expected to arrive in Paris at 1110 local time (0910
GMT).
It made its last radio contact at 0133 GMT (2233 Brazilian time) when it was
565km (360m) off Brazil's north-eastern coast, Brazil's air force said.
The crew said they were planning to enter Senegalese airspace at 0220 GMT and
that the plane was flying normally at an altitude of 10,670m (35,000ft).
At 0220, when Brazilian air traffic controllers saw the plane had not made its
required radio call from Senegalese airspace, air traffic control in the
Senegalese capital was contacted.
At 0530 GMT, Brazil's air force launched a search-and-rescue mission, sending
out a coast guard patrol plane and a specialised air force rescue aircraft.
France is despatching three search planes based in Dakar, Senegal, and has asked
the US to help with satellite technology.
"The plane might have been struck by lightning - it's a possibility," Francois
Brousse, head of communications at Air France, told reporters in Paris.
David Gleave, from Aviation Safety Investigations, told the BBC that planes were
routinely struck by lightning, and the cause of the crash remained a mystery.
"Aeroplanes get hit by lightning on quite a routine basis without generally any
problems occurring at all," he told BBC Radio Five Live.
"Whether it's related to this electrical storm and the electrical failure on the
aeroplane, or whether it's another reason, we have to find the aeroplane first."
France's minister responsible for transportation, Jean-Louis Borloo, ruled out
hijacking as a cause of the plane's loss.
'No information'
Mr Sarkozy said he had met "a mother who lost her
son, a fiance who lost her future husband".
"I told them the truth," he said afterwards. "The prospects of finding survivors
are very small."
Finding the plane would be "very difficult" because the search zone was "immense",
he added.
About 20 relatives of passengers on board the flight arrived at Rio's Jobim
international airport on Monday morning seeking information.
Bernardo Souza, who said his brother and sister-in-law were on the flight,
complained he had received no details from Air France.
"I had to come to the airport but when I arrived I just found an empty counter,"
he was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
Air France has opened a telephone hotline for friends and relatives of people on
the plane - 00 33 157021055 for callers outside France and 0800 800812 for
inside France.
This is the first major incident in Brazilian air space since a Tam flight
crashed in Sao Paulo in July 2007 killing 199 people.
Taken From BBC News
Pressure on PM as minister quits
Gordon Brown is about to face his Labour critics after another minister quit with a blast at his leadership.
Environment minister Jane Kennedy said she could not support him
as leader.
It came as Labour digested a dire set of European election results which saw
them gain just 15% of votes and finish behind the UK Independence Party.
Mr Brown is addressing all Labour MPs in Parliament from 1800 BST in what is
being billed as a crucial moment in his efforts to remain prime minister.
Conservative leader David Cameron said Mr Brown and his critics were locked in
"a slow dance of political death".
"He can't seem to reshuffle his cabinet but they can't seem to organise a coup,"
he told Tory activists in Wales - where the Conservatives pushed Labour into
second place in the European elections.
'Not reappointed'
Mr Brown has been reshuffling his junior ministers, following last week's
cabinet reshuffle and departure of six cabinet ministers and several other
ministers.
Part of that process has seen the departure of Ms Kennedy, Liverpool Wavertree
MP, who has quit the government before - as health minister in 2006 over NHS
reforms.
She is well known in Labour circles for campaigning against the Militant
Tendency in Liverpool in the 1980s.
She told the BBC: "I was asked if I wanted to stay in government and if I did,
would I give an assurance that I would be in support of Gordon Brown?
"I wasn't able to give them that assurance and therefore I have not been
reappointed to the government."
Asked why she could not support him, she said: "I've been unhappy for some time
about briefings against individuals, leaks, smears against colleagues.
"It's a style, a type of politics that I have fought against all my working life
since battling against the Militant Tendency here in Liverpool. It's not a kind
of politics that I want to be associated with."
Resignation 'regretted'
She added: "I have to do what I believe is right and I'm afraid for Gordon I
can't support him as leader."
Mr Brown's spokesman said the prime minister "did not ask for any pledge of
loyalty from her or any other minister".
The spokesman said: "The prime minister was aware of Jane Kennedy's intention to
stand down. He spoke to her this morning.
"She explained her reasons and he said that he regretted the
fact that she had decided to stand down but if that was her decision, then that
was a matter for her."
And Communities Secretary John Denham rejected complaints about bullying and
smears, telling the BBC that the party had paid tribute to the work of Hazel
Blears and James Purnell - who quit the cabinet last week.
"I don't think that is briefing against people. I don't think that's bullying. I
think that's trying to treat colleagues fairly," he said.
Ms Kennedy was replaced by Jim Fitzpatrick in a reshuffle of junior ministers
which also saw Ivan Lewis, Gillian Merron and sisters Maria and Angela Eagle
promoted.
Reshuffle
Sadiq Khan was announced as the new Transport Minister and will be the first
Muslim MP to attend Cabinet in the role. Angela Smith was made minister of state
at the Cabinet Office.
Lord Drayson and Bill Rammell took up roles at the Ministry of Defence and Dawn
Primarolo was moved to the Department of Children, Schools and Families,
replacing Beverley Hughes, who resigned last week.
Meanwhile Labour MP Sally Keeble announced she was withdrawing her support for
Mr Brown in a letter to her constituents in Northampton North.
Later she told the BBC Mr Brown had not been able to "command
authority" within government.
She said the cabinet should "talk to Gordon about his position": "It's time for
us to move on and I think those closest to him should talk to him about that."
Labour MP Frank Field, the leader of last year's 10p tax rebellion, accused Mr
Brown's allies of trying to "terrorise" Labour MPs into sticking with him by the
threat of an immediate general election.
Mr Field said there was no reason a new leader would have to call an election
before next spring.
He said: "Labour cannot win with the present prime minister.
"I was one of the seven who would not support his coronation after Tony Blair
was shoehorned out of Number 10. But even I didn't think a Brown administration
would be as inept as this one."
'Delusional'
But Mr Brown's deputy, Harriet Harman told the BBC the
government would not "throw in the towel".
"What we won't be doing is wringing our hands, being disunited, turning in on
ourselves," she said.
"Our obligation is to sort out the economy and protect people and sort out the
expenses problem and we will do both these things."
"I think there is nobody better placed in terms of taking the economy forward
than Gordon Brown."
Influential Labour backbencher Jon Cruddas said it was "delusional" for critics
of the prime minister to identify leadership instead of policy as the source of
the party's problems.
He told BBC Radio 4's The World At One: "There's all these resignations but
there's no differences in policy - that's what I don't understand.
"Everyone's walking away and taking their bat home with them, but they are not
staking out different ideological or policy-based ground."
Taken from BBC News