All 228 onboard air France jet feared dead

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It's been more than 24 hours since an air France jet disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean. There is little hope any of the nearly two hundred and 30 people on board have survived.

The jet reportedly ran into a tower of thunderstorms and heavy turbulence, but the mystery of its disappearance remains yet to be solved.

There were 228 people, including 12 crew members on board this 4-year-old Airbus A330, which took off from Rio de Janeiro at 7 P-M local time on Sunday.

It left the radar screens of Brazilian air controllers after it passed the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, three hours into its flight.

Air France says the plane "crossed through a thunderous zone with strong turbulence" about 30 minutes later.

Nicolas Sarkozy, French President, said, "Everybody can imagine what a mother who lost her daughter can think, what a bride-to-be who has lost her future husband can think. I told them the truth, which is that that the possibility of finding surviving people is very thin."