среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

Captain of Air France Flight 447 was son of pilot

Marc Dubois grew up to be a pilot, just like his dad.

The younger Dubois was last heard from Sunday night, when the Air France Flight 447 he was captaining encountered fierce thunderstorms over the mid-Atlantic and plunged into the ocean with 228 people on board.

Marc Dubois, 58, had been flying jets for Air France for more than 20 years after joining the airline from rival French domestic carrier Air Inter in 1988, according to colleagues.

His father, Jean-Paul Dubois, had also been an Air France pilot, and died last March at age 89, according to the La Nouvelle Republique newspaper.

Marc Dubois had 11,000 hours of flying time for Air …

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