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Nationalities of passengers on missing plane
Tue, Jun 02, 2009
Reuters

(Reuters) - An Air France plane with 216 passengers and 12 crew on board was presumed to have crashed into the Atlantic Ocean Monday amid heavy turbulence on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

Air France gave the following official list of passengers of 32 different nationalities. The list differed from earlier numbers given out by the airline in Brazil. Its list did not give details on the crew.

61 French

58 Brazilians

26 Germans

9 Chinese

9 Italians

6 Swiss

5 Britons

5 Lebanese

4 Hungarians

3 Irish

3 Norwegians

3 Slovakians

2 Moroccans

2 Poles

2 Spanish

2 U.S. citizens

1 Argentine

1 Austrian

1 Belgian

1 Canadian

1 Croatian

1 Danish

1 Dutch

1 Estonian

1 Gambian

1 Icelandic

1 Philippines

1 Romanian

1 Russian

1 South African

1 Swedish

1 Turkish

(Compiled by Jonathon Burch)


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