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Distraught relatives and friends of passengers of Air France flight AF447 arrive at the crisis centre at Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris June 1, 2009.
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The Brazilian air force is mounting a search and rescue operation for the Air France flight 447. But there are increasing fears that everyone in the flight may be dead as the flight went out of contact within three hours of taking off.
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There are fears in UK that Britons may have been on board the flight.
The Prime Minister of U.K. Gordon Brown said to Sky News "I do fear there may be some British citizens on board,"
The Foreign office is said to have been "urgently" looking into the matter seeking news on any Britons who may have been onboard the flight.
Officials have said they have "no hope" for the flight any more. The flight made last contact around 3:14 am British time reporting a short circuit after around 15 minutes flying of flying into a storm and facing turbulences. Air France said it is likely the plane was struck by lightning leading to a "sudden" and "catastrophic system failure".
"There was very, very strong turbulence. For now we can't understand what happened," the senior French minister Jean-Louis Borloo said on France Info radio.
"Apparently the possibility of a hijacking has been excluded," Borloo added.
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