Air France flight af447 crash

Reading about the Air France crash wherein none were thought to have survived is actually making me quite sad.

I clock in a whole lot of flying time even if I’m supposed to be pretty stationary and I don’t want to be paranoid but I’m not as devil may care as I used to be when I get on a plane, what with this kind of news and the H1N1 virus.

Here is the breakdown of the passenger list of nationalities, which actually includes one Filipino.

Air France Crash 2009, Air France jet crashes and 228 feared dead. An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris is believed to have crashed into the Atlantic on Monday after suffering an electrical failure in a fierce storm.

It is confirmed that all 228 people were killed, it would mark the worst loss of life in Air France's history and civil aviation's worst accidental disaster for more than a decade.

Air France said that on air france flight 447 among 216 passengers, there are 126 men, 82 women, seven children and a baby. The crew was made up of 12 members, including nice cabin crew. In Rio, Air France spokesman Jorge Asuncao said there were 80 Brazilian passengers, 73 French, 18 Germans, nine Italians, six Americans, five Chinese,, four Hungarians, two Spanish, two British, two Moroccans and two Irish.

"The most likely thing is that the plane was hit by lightning. The plane was in a stormy area with strong turbulence, which provoked problems," said Francois Brousse, Air France's director of communications.

Airbus said the A330 has a good safety record- there have never been fatalities on a commercial flight - but in 1994 one crashed during a test flight in southern France, killing seven people on board.

The airline has also established a special toll-free number for the attention of relatives and friends to check if they were on board the flight. The phone number reserved for relatives and friends is:

0800 800 812 in France,
0800 881 20 20 in Brazil,
and + 33 1 57 02 10 55 for calls from all other countries.

The official Air France list of nationalities on board flight AF447 is:

Brazilian: 58
French: 61
German: 26
Chinese: 9
Italian: 9
Swiss: 6
British: 5
Lebanese: 5
Hungarian: 4
Irish: 3
Norwegian: 3
Slovakian: 3
American: 2
Moroccan: 2
Spaniard: 2
Polish: 2
Argentinian: 1
Austrian: 1
Belgian: 1
Croation: 1
Danish: 1
Dutch: 1
Estonian: 1
Filipino: 1
Gambian: 1
Icelandic: 1
Canadian: 1
Romanian: 1
Russian: 1
South African: 1
Swedish: 1
Turkish: 1

7 of these are children and 1 baby