An airplane full of people disappears near a deserted tropical island.  No, it’s not a description of the hit TV show Lost, it is real life.  An Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris disappeared overnight last night without a trace.  An hour after takeoff, the plane encountered heavy turbulence.  Ten minutes after that turbulence, the Airbus A330 disappeared from radar screens near the island of Fernando de Noronha.

I hate to be flippant, but the first thing I thought when I read the story was, “Hey, that’s like Lost!”  I know that in real life, people don’t crash land on traveling islands full of smoke monsters and polar bears.  There are 228 people missing at this moment that may never be found.  Maybe the plane’s transponder just went bad, but as time passes that becomes less likely.

All that you can hope for is that there are some survivors and that they were able to safely evacuate the plane and are on rafts headed towards civilization.  Simply surviving an event like a plane crash is a miracle, but surviving a plane that goes down in shark-infested waters is even more difficult.  Here’s hoping for a miracle, eh?

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