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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Air France jet with 228 people missing over Atlantic AFP - 2 hours 10 minutes ago PARIS (AFP) - - An Air France jet carrying 228 people on a Rio de Janeiro-Paris flight was feared to have crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Monday after suffering an electrical failure while flying through a fierce storm, officials said. ADVERTISEMENT Air France said the Airbus A330-200 jet was probably hit by lightning. The Brazilian and French air forces sent out search planes and other countries were on alert. If it is confirmed that all 228 people were lost it would be the worst loss of life in Air France's history and civil aviation's worst disaster for more than a decade. "We are without a doubt faced with an aviation catastrophe. The entire company is thinking of the families and shares their pain," Air France chief executive Pierre-Henri Gourgeon told reporters at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. French Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo confirmed the plane had probably had some kind of accident as a hijacking had been ruled out. "There's nothing on Spanish radar, nothing on Moroccan radar, nothing on French radar. We can seriously envisage the worst," Borloo said. The minister told AFP there were "powerful" tropical storms in the zone. "It is the kind of jet made to handle this kind of circumstance but there must have been a build up of circumstances." 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, Gourgeon said. "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 Brousse, Air France's director of communications, said separately. Borloo was among top French officials sent to Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport, where relatives of the 216 passengers and 12 crew were being cared for by doctors and psychologists. The passengers were made up of 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 for the 9,145 kilometre (5,282 mile) flight which would normally take 10 hours and 20 minutes. The Brazilian air force said its planes had scrambled to search for the jet off its northeast coast. A French military reconnaissance plane also flew out of Senegal to take part in the search. French authorities set up a crisis cell and President Nicolas Sarkozy was due to go to Charles de Gaulle airport. Sarkozy's office said he had ordered all relevant government agencies to hunt "for any sign of the plane and to quickly shine a light on the reasons for its disappearance." Air France shares slipped after the news. Last week the airline 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. On July 25, 2000, all 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 hit stray cows as it landed in the southern Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt in July 2005. No-one was injured. On August 3, 2005, An Air France A340 with 309 passengers and 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. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Sign in to recommend this article » 0 users recommend Related Articles: World GM files for bankruptcyAFP - 2 hours 31 minutes ago Clinton welcomes new US talks with CubaAFP - Monday, June 1 New delay hits human rights suit against ShellAFP - Monday, June 1 Last Titanic survivor dies in EnglandAFP - Monday, June 1 US abortion doctor gunned down in churchAFP - Monday, June 1 Enlarge Photo Two Air France passenger planes at Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris. 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