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Article: Air France says no hope of survivors in Atlantic
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- June 4, 2009
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Air France has told families of passengers on Flight 447 that the jetliner broke apart and they must abandon hope that anyone survived, a grief counselor said Thursday as Brazilian ships neared debris bobbing in the Atlantic.
Air France's CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said at a private meeting with families that the plane disintegrated either in the air or when it slammed into the ocean and there were no survivors, according to Guillaume Denoix de Saint-Marc, who was asked by Paris prosecutors to help counsel relatives.
The plane, carrying 228 people, disappeared after leaving Rio de Janeiro for Paris on Sunday night. It was Air France's deadliest plane crash and the world's worst ...