Five Brits and three Irish on missing Airbus
Air France has confirmed that five Brits and three Irish people were on board the Airbus 330 that vanished over the Atlantic Ocean.
Oil worker Arthur Coakley, 61, of Whitby, North Yorkshire and three Irish doctors, Aisling Butler, of Roscrea, Co Tipperary, Jane Deasy, of Dublin, and Eithne Walls, originally from Belfast, are among the passengers on flight 447 which disappeared en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on Sunday night.
Search planes and ships have been scouring the huge area of ocean where the plane could be, thought to be three times the size of Europe, but French president Nicolas Sarkozy has admitted that the hope of finding any survivors are “very small”.
By Dinah Hatch
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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