Air France Flight 447

Air France 447 was a flight scheduled from Rio de Janeiro,Brazil to Paris,that crashed on 1 June 2009 over the Atlantic ocean with the loss of all 216 passengers and 12 crew members.

The last contact with the crew was a message to Brazilian air traffic controllers, Forty minutes later, a series of automatic radio messages was received from the plane, indicating numerous problems and warnings.

On 6 June 2009, a search operation recovered two bodies and debris from the aircraft floating in the ocean 1000 km northeast of the Fernando de Noronha islands off Brazil's northern coast.