Francois Henry
Age: 39
Summary: French
flight attendant for the Air France-affiliated airline company Air
Austral stationed at Roland Garros Airport in Sante-Marie, Reunion,
France who along with his girlfriend Celine Guittard were among
one of 228 passengers and crew members reported missing and presumed dead aboard
on the ill-fated Paris-bound Air France Flight 447 after the jetliner
mysteriously disappeared on May 31, 2009 and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean
during a violent tropical thunderstorm and severe turbulence off the
northeastern Brazilian coast of Fernando de Noronha, in which the Brazilian Navy
personnel recovered the first major wreckage and two bodies from the sea within
five days of the accident, but the initial investigation conducted by France's
Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) was hampered
because the aircraft's flight recorders were not yet recovered from the ocean floor
at the time.
Cause of Death: Airplane accident
Born: August 26, 1969
Died: June 1, 2009
Location: Fernando de Noronha, Brazil