Plane with 9 Chinese Vanishes, Chances of Surviving Very Slim

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France and Brazil on Monday dispatched military aircraft for a search on a vast Atlantic Ocean area where an Air France jet carrying 228 people may have come down.

The planes have started a thorough scouring of areas possible to find the wreckage although officials have said there were little chances for the safe return of any survivors on board the Airbus A330-200.

"The chances of finding any survivors are very slim," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a statement at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport following his meeting with relatives of passengers on the plane on Monday.

The Air France jet was probably hit by lightning and suffered an electrics failure while flying through an Atlantic storm, Air France said earlier in the day.

"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," said Francois Brouse, the director of communications of Air France.

Air France announced Monday that victims aboard the airplane came from 32 countries, including 58 Brazilians, 61 French, 26 Germans, 9 Chinese and 9 Italians.

The airplane, bound for Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, lost contact with the control center shortly after its takeoff from Rio de Janeiro on Sunday at 7 p.m. (2200 GMT). It was expected to arrive in Paris on Monday at 11:15 a.m. local time (0915 GMT).

Earlier, Air France said in a statement that the jet "crossed through a thunderous zone with strong turbulence" at around 0200 GMT Monday, and "an automatic message was received at 0214 GMT signaling electrical circuit malfunction."

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國(guó)際在線報(bào)道（記者何濱）：法國(guó)航空公司一架載有228人的客機(jī)6月1日在大西洋上空失蹤。目前搜尋工作正在進(jìn)行。截至記者發(fā)稿時(shí)，仍未發(fā)現(xiàn)失蹤客機(jī)。法國(guó)總統(tǒng)薩科齊稱，目前機(jī)上乘客生還的希望已經(jīng)“非常渺?！?。

法航1日發(fā)表公報(bào)說(shuō)，該公司一架航班號(hào)為ＡＦ447的空客Ａ330－200客機(jī)當(dāng)天凌晨從巴西里約熱內(nèi)盧飛往巴黎途中在大西洋上空失蹤。公報(bào)說(shuō)，這架客機(jī)于格林尼治時(shí)間5月31日22點(diǎn)（北京時(shí)間6月1日6點(diǎn)）從里約熱內(nèi)盧機(jī)場(chǎng)起飛，計(jì)劃于格林尼治時(shí)間6月1日上午9點(diǎn)10分抵達(dá)法國(guó)巴黎戴高樂(lè)機(jī)場(chǎng)。但客機(jī)在起飛后4個(gè)小時(shí)遭遇強(qiáng)烈氣流。地面隨后收到由客機(jī)自動(dòng)發(fā)出的電路故障信息，這是客機(jī)與地面的最后一次聯(lián)系。

據(jù)法航公布的數(shù)據(jù)，失蹤客機(jī)上共有216名乘客，包括7名兒童和1名嬰兒，另有機(jī)組人員12人。法航還根據(jù)巴西相關(guān)部門(mén)提供的信息公布了機(jī)上乘客以及機(jī)組人員的國(guó)籍情況，失蹤客機(jī)上216名乘客共來(lái)自32個(gè)國(guó)家。其中法國(guó)乘客61人，巴西乘客58人和德國(guó)乘客26人。還有9名乘客來(lái)自中國(guó)。此外，機(jī)組12名成員全部來(lái)自法國(guó)。

法航說(shuō)，失蹤客機(jī)于2005年4月18日首次運(yùn)營(yíng)，累計(jì)飛行時(shí)間近1.9萬(wàn)小時(shí)，最近一次維修時(shí)間為2009年4月16日。失蹤客機(jī)的飛行員有1.1萬(wàn)小時(shí)的飛行經(jīng)驗(yàn)，駕駛同類(lèi)客機(jī)已有1700小時(shí)，飛行經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富。截至目前，這架航班失蹤的確切原因尚不明確。法航發(fā)言人說(shuō)，客機(jī)失蹤前很有可能被閃電擊中。他說(shuō)，客機(jī)飛入了雷雨區(qū)并且遭遇強(qiáng)烈氣流，引發(fā)了客機(jī)故障。

獲悉法航客機(jī)失蹤的消息后，巴西空軍已派出飛機(jī)在巴西東北部的大西洋海域展開(kāi)搜尋工作。與此同時(shí)，法國(guó)軍方也出動(dòng)巡邏機(jī)加入搜尋，但尚未發(fā)現(xiàn)任何線索。法國(guó)國(guó)務(wù)部長(zhǎng)兼環(huán)境與可持續(xù)發(fā)展部長(zhǎng)讓?zhuān)芬?博洛說(shuō)，根據(jù)時(shí)間推算，即使客機(jī)一直在空中飛行，油料應(yīng)該也已耗盡，因此客機(jī)可能已墜海失事。法國(guó)民航部門(mén)官員也表示，客機(jī)安然無(wú)恙已“沒(méi)有希望”。法航首席執(zhí)行官皮埃爾－亨利?古爾容在巴黎舉行的新聞發(fā)布會(huì)上說(shuō)，“我們無(wú)疑正經(jīng)歷一場(chǎng)空難”。如果機(jī)上所有228人全部遇難，這將是法航有史以來(lái)死亡人數(shù)最多的空難，也是10年多來(lái)世界上損失最慘重的空難。

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