Yesterday the world saw the disappearance of an A330 Air Frane during a trans Atlantic flight between Rio to Paris



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Passenger and crew details


A list containing the nationalities of the passengers onboard was released by Air France on 1 June 2009.[73] A partial list containing 75 named crew and passengers on board the plane was released on 3 June 2009.[74]

Nationality  

Passengers  

Crew  

Total  

 France

61

11

72

 Brazil

58 (57)[75]

1

59 (58)

 Germany

26 (28)[76]



26 (28)

 Italy

9



9

 People's Republic of China

9



9

 Switzerland

6



6

 Hungary

4



4

 Lebanon

5



5

 United Kingdom

5 (4)[77]



5 (4)

 Norway

3 (4)[77]



3 (4)

 Ireland

3



3

 Slovakia

3



3

 Morocco

2



2

 Poland

2



2

 Spain

2



2

Belgium

2



2

 United States

2



2

 Argentina

1

1

2[78]

 Austria

1



1

 Canada

1



1

 Croatia

1



1

 Denmark

1



1

 Estonia

1



1

 Gabon

1



1

 Iceland

1



1

 Netherlands

1 (2)[75]



1 (2)

 Philippines

1



1

 Romania

1



1

 Russia

1



1

 Sweden

1 (3)[79]



1 (3)

 South Africa

1



1

 South Korea

1



1

 Turkey

1[80]



1

Total

216

12

228

The aircraft was carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew members in two cabins of service.[81][82] Three pilots were amongst the crew. Among the 216 passengers were one baby, seven children, 82 women, and 126 men.[14] 58-year-old flight captain Marc Dubois, who joined Air France in 1988, had approximately 11,000 flight hours, with 1,700 hours on an Airbus A330. The two co-pilots, 37-year-old David Robert and 32-year-old Pierre-Cedric Bonin, had over 9,000 flight hours between them. Of the twelve crew members, eleven were French and one was Brazilian.[83][84]

According to an official list made public by Air France, most of the passengers were French, Brazilian, and German citizens.[85][86] In addition to this, there were some passengers on this flight who may have held multiple citizenship.[Note 2]


Notable passengers


Passengers included Prince Pedro Luís of Orléans-Bragança, third in line of succession to the extinct throne of Brazil.[87][88] He had dual Brazilian-Belgian citizenship. He was returning home to Luxembourg from a visit to his relatives in Rio de Janeiro.[89][90] Other passengers included Silvio Barbato, composer and former conductor of the Symphony Orchestras of the Brasilia National Theatre and the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre[91][92], Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu, a Turkish classical harpist and academic of Anadolu University in Eskişehir, was also on board; she was returning home via Paris after having given concerts at the fourth Rio Harp Festival. [93]


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