Airbus A330 France lost the suspect in the fall

One plane owned airlines Air France from Brazil to France with 228 passengers missing in the Atlantic after a suspected lightning tersambar.

The airline officials say this type of Airbus aircraft that automatically send a message 0214 hours GMT, four hours after leaving Rio de Janeiro, reported short-circuit occurs when the short waves penetrate fly great.

He is in the Atlantic ocean on the lost time, so the search effort Brazil and France increasingly difficult.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the possibility of finding survivors is very small sacrifice.

''This is a disaster that has not been experienced previously by Air France,''Sarkozy said after meeting with relatives and companion taulan unlucky passenger plane in the center of the crisis the airport Charles de Gaulle.

Previous executive director of Air France, Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, told journalists: "Without doubt we have a disaster in the air.''

He added:''We at Air France is doing as much as possible for the family and join in the mourning experience.''

Minister of France who are responsible for transportation, Jean-Louis Borloo, refuse factors as piracy causes loss of the aircraft.

"He be struck by lightning - this is one possibility," said Francois Brousse, Air France head of communications to journalists in Paris.

Aircraft numbered AF 447 flight hours to leave Rio 1900 local time (0400 WIB) on Sunday.

216 transport aircraft is 12 passengers and crew, including three pilots, the passengers consisted of a baby son, seven children, 82 women and 126 prila.

Details of citizenship has not been released but the passenger is believed there are Italian citizens and passengers in addition to English and French origin Brazil.

'Search long'

Airbus 330-200 aircraft type scheduled to arrive in Paris 11:10 hours local time (WIT 1510).

Reported the plane was missing about 300 km northeast of the city Natal, Brazil.

Air Force spokesman Colonel Henry Munhoz Brazil told Brazilian television that the plane is caught in the radar Cape Verde Islands, and confirming that the Brazilian air force plane has left Fernando de Noronha to search.
One plane owned airlines Air France from Brazil to France with 228 passengers missing in the Atlantic after allegedly affected by lightning.

One French military planes have also been diterbangkan from Senegal to participate in a search.

Borloo said the possibility that the plane ran out of fuel already.

"Radar is not Spain catch anything, radar Morocco and France also did not catch anything - we are really about the worst," he added.

Douglas Ferreira Machado, head of accident investigation and prevention in Brazil Civil Aeronatika Agency said search efforts would "take longer".

"This could be a long and sad story," he said to the Brazilian Globo News. "Is likely black box in the bottom of the sea."

An Air France spokesman said the radio contact with aircraft that do not occur "in some time."

Crisis center

An Air France official told AFP news agency that the wait for the arrival of the aircraft that will be taken to a special place in the second terminal Charles de Gaulle airport.

Family and friends leave the passenger waiting room was coming.

This is the first major accident in the area of Brazil since the air plane Tam fell in Sao Paulo in July 2007 that killed 199 people.