Jose Gregorio Marques

 

Age: 72

 

Summary: Brazilian retired federal judge who along with his wife Maria Tereza Gregorio Marques 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 removed 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: June 1, 1937

 

Died: June 1, 2009

 

Location: Fernando de Noronha, Brazil