An Air France passenger jet bound from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, with 228 people on board - including 12 crew members and eight children - has gone missing over the Atlantic. A massive search operation is currently underway. ----Brazilian air force launches search operation The Brazilian Air Force has launched a search operation for the missing Flight AF 447. Speaking to Reuters, a Brazilian Air Force spokesman said search planes had taken off from the island of Fernando de Noronha off Brazil's north-east coast to look for the missing plane. The Brazilian navy announced that it had sent three ships to help in the search operation. From Senegal, Jean-Christophe Rufin, France's ambassador to Senegal, told a French TV station that aircraft had also set off from the West African nation to aid in the search. France's airports authority has set up two crisis lines for the loved ones of people on board AF 447. The domestic line for calls from France is 0.800.800.812. The international line for calls outside France is + 33.1.57.02.10.55
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Brazilian air force launches search operation The Brazilian Air Force has launched a search operation for the missing Flight AF 447. Speaking to Reuters, a Brazilian Air Force spokesman said search planes had taken off from the island of Fernando de Noronha off Brazil's north-east coast to look for the missing plane. The Brazilian navy announced that it had sent three ships to help in the search operation. From Senegal, Jean-Christophe Rufin, France's ambassador to Senegal, told a French TV station that aircraft had also set off from the West African nation to aid in the search. France's airports authority has set up two crisis lines for the loved ones of people on board AF 447. The domestic line for calls from France is 0.800.800.812. The international line for calls outside France is + 33.1.57.02.10.55
and making a black box only run its beeper for a month seems a little cheap, considering the value of peoples' lives entrusted to these behemoths.
and the value of said behemoths themselves. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
