Hours after an Air France plane bound from Brazil to Paris with 228 people on board disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the prospect of finding any survivors was “very slim.”
Speaking to reporters at the Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport, where the missing Flight AF 447 was supposed to land, Sarkozy described Monday’s incident as “the worst” in Air France’s history.
The flight, with mostly Brazilian and French passengers on board, left Rio de Janeiro’s Galeao airport at 7pm Sunday night local time (GMT-3). It was expected at CDG at 11:15am Paris time Monday. The passenger jet was “well advanced” over the Atlantic Ocean before it went missing, according to Brazilian Air Force officials.
