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An Air France carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew is feared lost:
The plane took off from Galeão Airport in Rio de Janeiro at 7:30 p.m. local time, and its last verbal communication with air traffic control was at 10:33 p.m., when the pilots said they would enter Senegal air space within 50 minutes, according to a statement from the Aeronautica, the body in charge of Brazilian air space. At that time, the flight was flying normally, travelling at 520 miles per hour at 35,000 feet.
About a half-hour later, at 2 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time, the plane encountered an electrical storm with “very heavy turbulence,” an Air France spokeswoman, Brigitte Barrand, said. The last communication from the plane was 14 minutes later — an automatically sent message informing air traffic control of electrical-system malfunction, Air France officials said in Paris.
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