As per the Brazilian Vice President Jose Alancar the search is being carried out for the missing Air France A330-200 with 228 people on board, but still no sign of the plane. Reportedly, the plane went missing in the thunderstorm mysteriously with no messages from the pilot but rather a series of error messages which suggested a big technical snag after the lightening might have struck the plane. A big discussion is now going on that how a modern aircraft with the most advanced features like lightening-proof system could not withstand the bad weather and went missing. A big search operation is carried out over the Ocean between Brazil and African coast but still no signs or trace of the plane.
As per the Brazilian officials, the plane disappeared over the Atlantic somewhere between a point 186 miles northeast of their coastal city Natal and the Cape Verde islands off Africa. The area is known as the “horse latitudes,” where the tropics of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres mix, sometimes creating violent and unpredictable thunderstorms that can rise to 55,000 feet, higher than commercial jetliners can go.
We hope for the best, though the hopes are fading very fast.
© 2009 Ranjan Kumar
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