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No signal has been heard from distress beacons on a missing Air France plane, indicating it suffered a "very rapid" catastrophe, a top French space agency official told AFP on Monday.

The search began Monday for an Air France jetliner presumed to have crashed into the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people on board. But the last known location of the flight - far from the coast of Brazil ...

The Air France crash investigation is now focused on the intertropical convergence zone, where trade winds converge, spurring giant storm clouds that can be tough to navigate, experts say.

It's the birthplace of some of the world's strongest storms, a nearly continuous band of colliding weather systems near the equator where the Air France jet vanished in the night.

Speculation continues about the crash of Air France jetliner flight 447 on its transatlantic journey.  A University of Indianapolis international relations expert says recent events point to the ...

An Air France memo to its pilots Friday about the crash of Flight 447 said the airline is replacing instruments that help measure airspeed on all its medium- and long-haul Airbus jets.

French investigators believe the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic broke up on contact with water, not in mid-air.

... editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Airplanes often weather lightning and thunderstorms — so what other factors led to the disappearance of an Air France jet? It will take some deep-sea sleuthing to find out.

(AP) -- The mysterious disappearance of an Air France jet this week while flying over the Atlantic in fierce thunderstorms is stirring a debate about whether new technologies and procedures are ...

... remote ocean regions. The system can help guide pilots away from intense weather, such as the thunderstorms that Air France Flight 447 apparently encountered before crashing into the Atlantic Ocean.

Airbus Knew Since at Least 2002 about Problems with Sensor that Malfunctioned on Doomed Air France Jet