Plane with 9 Chinese Vanishes, Chances of Surviving Very Slim


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France and Brazil on Monday dispatched military aircraft for a search on a vast Atlantic Ocean area where an Air France jet carrying 228 people may have come down.

The planes have started a thorough scouring of areas possible to find the wreckage although officials have said there were little chances for the safe return of any survivors on board the Airbus A330-200.

"The chances of finding any survivors are very slim," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a statement at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport following his meeting with relatives of passengers on the plane on Monday.

The Air France jet was probably hit by lightning and suffered an electrics failure while flying through an Atlantic storm, Air France said earlier in the day.

"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 Brouse, the director of communications of Air France.

Air France announced Monday that victims aboard the airplane came from 32 countries, including 58 Brazilians, 61 French, 26 Germans, 9 Chinese and 9 Italians.

The airplane, bound for Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, lost contact with the control center shortly after its takeoff from Rio de Janeiro on Sunday at 7 p.m. (2200 GMT). It was expected to arrive in Paris on Monday at 11:15 a.m. local time (0915 GMT).

Earlier, Air France said in a statement that the jet "crossed through a thunderous zone with strong turbulence" at around 0200 GMT Monday, and "an automatic message was received at 0214 GMT signaling electrical circuit malfunction."

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國際在線報道（記者何濱）：法國航空公司一架載有228人的客機6月1日在大西洋上空失蹤。目前搜尋工作正在進行。截至記者發(fā)稿時，仍未發(fā)現(xiàn)失蹤客機。法國總統(tǒng)薩科齊稱，目前機上乘客生還的希望已經(jīng)“非常渺?！?。

法航1日發(fā)表公報說，該公司一架航班號為ＡＦ447的空客Ａ330－200客機當天凌晨從巴西里約熱內(nèi)盧飛往巴黎途中在大西洋上空失蹤。公報說，這架客機于格林尼治時間5月31日22點（北京時間6月1日6點）從里約熱內(nèi)盧機場起飛，計劃于格林尼治時間6月1日上午9點10分抵達法國巴黎戴高樂機場。但客機在起飛后4個小時遭遇強烈氣流。地面隨后收到由客機自動發(fā)出的電路故障信息，這是客機與地面的最后一次聯(lián)系。

據(jù)法航公布的數(shù)據(jù)，失蹤客機上共有216名乘客，包括7名兒童和1名嬰兒，另有機組人員12人。法航還根據(jù)巴西相關部門提供的信息公布了機上乘客以及機組人員的國籍情況，失蹤客機上216名乘客共來自32個國家。其中法國乘客61人，巴西乘客58人和德國乘客26人。還有9名乘客來自中國。此外，機組12名成員全部來自法國。

法航說，失蹤客機于2005年4月18日首次運營，累計飛行時間近1.9萬小時，最近一次維修時間為2009年4月16日。失蹤客機的飛行員有1.1萬小時的飛行經(jīng)驗，駕駛同類客機已有1700小時，飛行經(jīng)驗豐富。截至目前，這架航班失蹤的確切原因尚不明確。法航發(fā)言人說，客機失蹤前很有可能被閃電擊中。他說，客機飛入了雷雨區(qū)并且遭遇強烈氣流，引發(fā)了客機故障。

獲悉法航客機失蹤的消息后，巴西空軍已派出飛機在巴西東北部的大西洋海域展開搜尋工作。與此同時，法國軍方也出動巡邏機加入搜尋，但尚未發(fā)現(xiàn)任何線索。法國國務部長兼環(huán)境與可持續(xù)發(fā)展部長讓－路易?博洛說，根據(jù)時間推算，即使客機一直在空中飛行，油料應該也已耗盡，因此客機可能已墜海失事。法國民航部門官員也表示，客機安然無恙已“沒有希望”。法航首席執(zhí)行官皮埃爾－亨利?古爾容在巴黎舉行的新聞發(fā)布會上說，“我們無疑正經(jīng)歷一場空難”。如果機上所有228人全部遇難，這將是法航有史以來死亡人數(shù)最多的空難，也是10年多來世界上損失最慘重的空難。


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