Air France Airbus A330-200 jet, registration #F-GZCP, bound for Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, disappeared off the radar screen at 1:33 a.m. ET. According to Air France officials, the flight encountered electrical problems in stormy weather.
The flight from Rio de Janeiro, carrying 216 passengers and a crew of 12 is missing and presumed to have crashed. The passenger roster lists 126 men, 82 women, seven children and a baby, in addition to the crew of three pilots and 9 flight attendants. To assist families of AF 447, seeking access to the passenger list, several international phone numbers have been established - see below.
A search has been launched near the island of Fernando de Noronha in the Atlantic Ocean, 226 miles from the Brazilian coast. Several Brazilian squadrons have been combing the waters for the doomed aircraft.
The AF 447 flight from Brazil to Paris took off at 6:00 p.m. ET with a scheduled landing of 5:15 a.m. ET. The Airbus A330-200 sent automatic messages at 10:15 ET, signaling equipment failure as it hit turbulence early in the flight, according to Air France CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon at a news conference in Paris.
Gourgeon said that those operating the missing flight were a “particularly experienced crew”. He also mentioned that the Airbus was a state of the art aircraft with extremely reliable CF6-80E engines made by General Electric.
The missing Air France A330-200 had 18,870 flight hours and had been in service since April 18, 2005. The last maintenance check was undertaken on April 16, 2009. The pilot has 11,000 flight hours, 1,700 of them in A300/A340’s.
A crisis center has been set up at Charles de Gaulle to aid relatives and friends of the Flight AF 447 passengers
Monday, June 1, 2009
Kim Kardashian Engagement Ring Tops US Interest
Kim Kardashian's engagement ring is more of interest to U.S. online users, than the GM bankruptcy and the Air France missing plane. Google Trends show that Kim Kardashian's engagement ring search is the most searched topic of in Google.
This is how celebrity and vanity driven is our culture. Kim Kardashian's engagement ring is about one person and about jewelry, while GM bankruptcy and the Air France missing stories affect the lives of tens of thousands of people.
I would have not written this post, but a European friend once asked me to check the main headlines of CNN Europe and CNN USA. I was very much surprized. CNN Europe's main headline was about climate change, while CNN USA's main headline was about a teenager who did something odd.
Why and when have we become this much indifferent about lives of other people and their well being. People, indeed, have freedom and rights of searching what they want. But that search tells a story of what are we interested in.
The question that I am posing here is rather rhetorical. When the country's largest automaker GM is filing for the largest bankruptcy in history and an Air France plane with hundreds of people on board goes missing why are we searching for Kim Kardashian's engagement ring.
http://www.huliq.com/1/81635/kim-kardashian-engagement-ring-tops-us-interest
This is how celebrity and vanity driven is our culture. Kim Kardashian's engagement ring is about one person and about jewelry, while GM bankruptcy and the Air France missing stories affect the lives of tens of thousands of people.
I would have not written this post, but a European friend once asked me to check the main headlines of CNN Europe and CNN USA. I was very much surprized. CNN Europe's main headline was about climate change, while CNN USA's main headline was about a teenager who did something odd.
Why and when have we become this much indifferent about lives of other people and their well being. People, indeed, have freedom and rights of searching what they want. But that search tells a story of what are we interested in.
The question that I am posing here is rather rhetorical. When the country's largest automaker GM is filing for the largest bankruptcy in history and an Air France plane with hundreds of people on board goes missing why are we searching for Kim Kardashian's engagement ring.
http://www.huliq.com/1/81635/kim-kardashian-engagement-ring-tops-us-interest
Kim Kardashian Engagement Ring Tops US Interest
Kim Kardashian's engagement ring is more of interest to U.S. online users, than the GM bankruptcy and the Air France missing plane. Google Trends show that Kim Kardashian's engagement ring search is the most searched topic of in Google.
This is how celebrity and vanity driven is our culture. Kim Kardashian's engagement ring is about one person and about jewelry, while GM bankruptcy and the Air France missing stories affect the lives of tens of thousands of people.
I would have not written this post, but a European friend once asked me to check the main headlines of CNN Europe and CNN USA. I was very much surprized. CNN Europe's main headline was about climate change, while CNN USA's main headline was about a teenager who did something odd.
Why and when have we become this much indifferent about lives of other people and their well being. People, indeed, have freedom and rights of searching what they want. But that search tells a story of what are we interested in.
The question that I am posing here is rather rhetorical. When the country's largest automaker GM is filing for the largest bankruptcy in history and an Air France plane with hundreds of people on board goes missing why are we searching for Kim Kardashian's engagement ring.
http://www.huliq.com/1/81635/kim-kardashian-engagement-ring-tops-us-interest
This is how celebrity and vanity driven is our culture. Kim Kardashian's engagement ring is about one person and about jewelry, while GM bankruptcy and the Air France missing stories affect the lives of tens of thousands of people.
I would have not written this post, but a European friend once asked me to check the main headlines of CNN Europe and CNN USA. I was very much surprized. CNN Europe's main headline was about climate change, while CNN USA's main headline was about a teenager who did something odd.
Why and when have we become this much indifferent about lives of other people and their well being. People, indeed, have freedom and rights of searching what they want. But that search tells a story of what are we interested in.
The question that I am posing here is rather rhetorical. When the country's largest automaker GM is filing for the largest bankruptcy in history and an Air France plane with hundreds of people on board goes missing why are we searching for Kim Kardashian's engagement ring.
http://www.huliq.com/1/81635/kim-kardashian-engagement-ring-tops-us-interest
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