Airbus will help investigate the disappearance of the liner over the Atlantic Ocean.

SyuzhetyKatastrofa Airbus A330-200 over Atlantikoy01.06.2009Nezadolgo to the disappearance of the aircraft with radar crew reported nepoladkahSpetsialisty from Airbus and the French Office for the investigation of aviation accidents and incidents will help the airline AirFrance in the investigation of the disappearance of the liner of a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. This was reported in the press release AirFrance.
In Paris and the Brazilian airports are open hotlines to receive calls from relatives of the passengers and crew members. According to the airline on board the A330-200 aircraft were 216 passengers, including eight children, 82 women and 126 men, as well as 12 crew members, including nine flight attendants. Previously, it was reported that the crew consisted of 15 people.
Representatives of the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the board had no staff of Russian and foreign diplomatic missions. According to the Italian media, this flight flew five Italian nationals. Agency AFP, referring to official sources in France said that the majority of passengers - Brazilians, but also on the board were at least 40 French citizens and 20 citizens of Germany.
It is also known that the plane was six Danes, three Moroccans, two Lebanese and one Portuguese. In the airport Charles de Gaulle 'left by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Relationship to going to Paris Airbus lost on 1 June, when it was over the Atlantic Ocean 350 kilometers off the coast of Brazil. Later it became known that shortly before it was reported a short circuit on the board at the time the plane hit a zone of strong turbulence. According to the airline, the last technical inspection of the missing aircraft was in April 2009.
Search for the aircraft involved in a team of rescuers. Official sources said that the hope of finding survivors virtually none.