Travel Safety Update - Europe.

June 1, 2009

May 31, 2009

Air France, Airbus

An Air France jet on its way from Brazil to Paris has disappeared from radar screens, the Paris airports authority said on Monday. Flight AF 447 had 228 people on board, Air France said. It left Rio de Janeiro on Sunday at 7 p.m. and was expected in Paris on Monday at 11:15 a.m. (0915 GMT), a spokesman for the airports authority said. Its last known location was unclear. Although later reports indicate that it was well over the Atlantic Ocean when it all contact was lost. An Air France-KLM spokeswoman in Amsterdam said there had been no radio contact with the missing plane "for a while". The people on board are 216 passengers and 12 crew members. The jet was an Airbus 330-200, airport authorities said. The Airbus A330 has had a very good safety record since its entry in service in the early 1990s. http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/a330.htm May 31, 2009

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