Air France tragedy above the Atlantic - Mysterious disappearance of Flight AF 447

02 June 2009 (13:00 GMT) It passed almost 36 hours since the disappearance of Air France Flight 447 and the missing passenger plane is nowhere to be found. The rescue and search mission continues across the Atlantic waters. The main questions that rise up is: What really made the A330-200 state-of-the-art jet to fall from sky? One speculative answer is related to lightning strike due to fact that the plane hit a storm area followed by a sequence of 4 minutes generation of warning signals announcing equipment failure on board aircraft. "The crash caused by lightning" theory is not fully accepted as long as a A330 jet is equipped with "fly by wire" protective system which controls electronically the movement of key surfaces of the airliner. Could an explosion onboard have brought down Flight AF447? Indeed this might be a realistic scenario backed up by the sudden loss of contact and total lack of communication with the crew. All the presumptions will be clarified when the search teams will find the AF447 FDR (Flight Data Recorder) and CVR (Cockpit Voice Recorder) respectively.
Update2: 14:00 GMT. Air France AF447 wreckage found along the scheduled path of the plane. Floating components and objects that seem to have belonged to A 447 flight were spotted at about 700 kilometers away from the Brazilian 21 islands archipelago of Fernando de Noronha. The search go on to gather enough evidence for confirming with certainty the debris of the Air France airliner.