A relative of the missing airliner's victims is surrounded by journalists 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 Sunday was probably hit by lightning and suffered an electrics failure while flying through an Atlantic storm, said Air France on Monday. [Xinhua]

Relatives of passengers of Air France flight AF447 arrive at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France, on June 1, 2009. The Air France plane with 228 people on board has gone missing over the Atlantic off the Brazilian coast on its way from Brazil to Paris on Monday. [Xinhua]