One small yet very important rule I have is to never allow the entire family to be aboard the same plane, because all it takes then would be one crash to wipe out the entire family.  Something to keep in  mind.

An Air France passenger jet traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared after its electrical systems malfunctioned during a storm with heavy turbulence on Sunday evening, and officials said Monday that a search had begun for the wreckage near a small archipelago off the Brazilian coast.

Air France’s chief executive Pierre Henri Gourgeon spoke to reporters at the airline’s headquarters, at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on Monday.
The New York Times

The plane disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean near the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha, Brazilian authorities said.

The plane, an Airbus 330-200, was carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew members. The passengers were 126 men, 82 women, 7 children and an infant. There were nine cabin crew members and three pilots, the airline said.

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