SHOOT: It must be one of the most awful feelings in the world. To be on an airliner and all the power goes out. If it's night time and you're over the ocean in bad weather it's impossible to tell where the ground/water is. Imagine that feeling - as a passenger. You're alright, perfectly safe, and you know in a few minutes things are really not going to be going very well for you, and there's nothing you can do about it. And obviously not nice to be a family member either.
RIO DE JANEIRO – Was Air France Flight 447 downed by wind and hail from towering thunderheads? By lightning? Or by a catastrophic combination of factors?
Investigators were mulling several theories as to why the plane carrying 228 people disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean, while Brazilian and French military aircraft scoured a vast swath of ocean between Brazil and the African coast for the Airbus A330.
The flight left Rio de Janeiro on Sunday night en route to Paris — only to vanish after issuing an automated message that the electrical system had failed.
Brazil's largest airline, TAM, released a statement late Monday saying that pilots flying one of its commercial flights from Paris to Rio spotted what they thought was fire in the ocean along the Air France jet's route.
"There is information that the pilot of a TAM aircraft saw several orange points on the ocean while flying over the region," he said.
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