Maria Celina Rodrigues (C), consul general of Brazil in France, accepts interviews at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France, on June 1, 2009. An Air France airliner with 228 people on board missing over the Atlantic Ocean was probably hit by lightning and suffered an electrics failure while flying through an Atlantic storm, Air France said on Monday. [Xinhua]

Bernaldo, the brother of Ciciaco who was late for the missing airliner, accepts interviews at the Rio de Janeiro International Airport, Brazil, on June 1, 2009. An Air France airliner with 228 people onboard missing over the Atlantic Ocean after its takeoff from Rio de Janeiro on Monday was probably hit by lightning and suffered an electrics failure while flying through an Atlantic storm, Air France said on Monday. [Xinhua]