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]
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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