Hope is fading for families and friends of the now notorious 477 passengers. More and more facts point to the dark truth: victims of the Air France flight crash AF 447 will probably never return. I wish that this time tomorrow I’ll come back here and edit this post with a “I was wrong” update…
Arrivals..unfortunatelly none for Flight 477
On 1 June 2009, Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330-203 (registration F-GZCP) from Rio de Janeiro to Paris with 228 people on-board lost contact with air traffic control while over the Atlantic Ocean, 300km (186 miles) north-east of the Brazilian city of Natal. Brazilian rescuers confirmed the wreckage found in the sea is that of the Air France jet. It was a fast-travelling rumour for some 1-2 days that the planed just vanished. Well, it seems it didn’t exactly teleport itself to another plane. Still, a bit of mystery floats over this story as most of the people are not to be found. Some of them had cell phones turned on (usually that is prohibited aboard flights, but some still keep them on - or maybe they did so before the plane fell and sank) and families could actually reach contact to the network.
Laurent Bouveresse, CEO of CGED: “Branch managers have met most of the families of those people that disappeared and what we want to do is first have contact with them.”
Another dear person of a victim, Aine Rooney, friend of Eithne Walls, says: “The shock is just unbearable to be honest.” Some of them are still waiting in the Airport, a gesture of both pain and hope.
Flying in the eye of the storm
Also, the French Minister in charge of Transport has announced that “pessimism is overwhelming at this point. . .”. A rather wrong move I’d say, but on the other hand politics are one thing and chess another. I prefer chess, needless to say.
Here is the statement on cell phone coverage:
Says Patricia Coakley (wife of victim Arthur Coakley): “Maybe today, I’m realising he might not come back. But I kept phoning him on his mobile and he’s pretty useless with mobiles, he hates them. You know, he’d like a tin of Heinz baked beans and a bit of string. But he never has his switched off, on rather. But his is switched off and I haven’t tried it today, but yesterday it was ringing so maybe they’re not at the bottom of the sea. That’s my hope but I think it’s maybe fading today.”
As an anonymous visitor states on a community forum blog: Mother Nature will always be in charge. How many of us have felt like “nothing” during horrific turbulence?! All you can do is take some deep breaths and pray. Going in to Vegas in April 2009 was the worse I have ever experienced. Even the pastor on-board was praying out loud.
The whole world, but victim’s families and friends first and foremost, await updates on this terrible accident and weird event. More on the Air France 477 case as it evolves. The story is not over…
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