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French plane missing with 228 on board

AFP, Paris
An Air France jet carrying 228 people on a Rio de Janeiro-Paris flight went missing yesterday after suffering an electrics failure while flying through a fierce Atlantic storm, the airline said.
Amid mounting fears that it had crashed into the ocean. Air France said the Airbus A-330 jet was probably hit by lightning as the Brazilian and French air force joined the search for the flight.
French Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said the plane had probably had some kind of
accident as a hijacking had been ruled out. The Brazilian Air Force launched a search and rescue operation in the Atlantic.
"There's nothing on Spanish radar, nothing on Moroccan radar, nothing on French radar. We can seriously envisage the worst,” Borloo said, indicating that it was extremely likely that the plane had been lost at sea.
Flight AF 447 sent an automatic error message reporting a fault in an electrical circuit at 0214 GMT, just over four hours after it left Rio, Air France said in a statement. "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," Francois Brouse, Air France's director of communications, said separately.
"In his last communication, the captain said there was turbulence and afterwards contact was lost," a Paris civil aviation official said on condition of anonymity.
There was "no hope", the official added grimly.
Borloo was among top French officials sent to Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport, where worried relatives of the 216 passengers and 12 crew gathered. It had been scheduled to land in Paris at 0910 GMT.
The 216 passengers are 126 men, 82 women, seven children and a baby, Air France said. There were nine flight attendants and three flight crew.
Five Italians were believed to be on the jet, according to Italian media.
Flight AF 447 left Rio at about 7:00pm (2200 GMT) on Sunday night. Rio and Paris lie 9,145 Kilometres (5,282 miles) apart, or an approximate flight time of 10 hours 20 minutes.
The Brazilian air force said its planes had scrambled to search for the jet in waters off its eastern coast, Brazilian aviation officials said.
A French military plane also flew out of Senegal to take part in the search, the French embassy in Dakar said.
Airport authorities set up a crisis cell at Charles de Gaulle airport and President Nicolas Sarkozy was due to go there. The French foreign ministry
also activated its own crisis cell.
The airline said it "shared theemotion and the concern of the families" and said friends and relatives would be cared for at the airport.
Sarkozy's office said he had ordered all relevant government agencies to hunt 'Tor any sign of the plane and to quickly shine a light on the reasons for its disappearance."
Air France shares slipped after the news of the incident. The airline last week announced its first net loss since it merged with Dutch airline KLM in 2003.
Air France suffered from the Concorde disaster in 2000 and has since had a number of accidents and scares, but if the loss of all on board Monday's flight it would be the worst in the company's history.
On July 25, 2000, ail 109 passengers and crew and four people on the ground were Killed when an Air France Concorde crashed near Charles de Gaulle airport. All Concordes were eventually taken out of service.
An Air France jet ran into a stray cow as it landed in the southern Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt in July 2005. Noone was injured.
On August 3, 2005, An Air France A340 with 309 passengersand crew on board skidded off the runway after landing in a thunder storm at Toronto's Pearson International Airport. Fourteen people suffered minor injuries.
In December of the same year, an Air France Boeing 777 made an emergency landing at Irkutsk in Siberia when one of its two engines broke down on a Seoul-Paris flight. There were no casualties.