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File Photo of an Airbus A330-200 similar to the Air France plane which vanished from radar after leaving Rio de Janeiro
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An Airbus 330, from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, Charles de Gaulle has gone missing. The flight was to arrive in Paris as 11:25 am local time (10:15am British time).
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The Air France flight on its way from Brazil to France has 228 people on board, Air France said on Monday.
The flight left on Sunday at 07.00 p.m. local time and was expected in Paris on Monday at 11.15 a.m. (10:15 a.m. British time), a spokesman said.
A source is Air France was reported to have said a search and rescue operation was launched off the coast of Brazil. A crisis centre has been set up in Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.
The people on board are 216 passengers and 12 crew.
"Air France regrets to announce that it is without news from flight AF 447," an Air France spokesman said.
Henry Wilson, a Brazilian air force spokesman, said planes had taken off from the island of Fernando de Noronha off Brazil's northeast coast to look for the Air France jet.
An Air France-KLM spokeswoman in Amsterdam said there had been no radio contact with the missing plane "for a while."
The families and relatives of the passengers on board are given special care in the airport itself.
The plane was an Airbus 330-200, according to the Paris airports authority website.
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