Air France Flight 447 goes down with no warning on July 1, 2009

Maria Ramos of CNN explains the projected flight path using Google Earth. In the early hours of the flight’s disappearance this video from CNN tried to explain what happened to the flight. All 228 people were lost when the Air France jet disappeared from the radar screen.

Video is copyright by CNN and used under fair use as part of a news story.

Updated January 5, 2010 to correct broken links.