Air France Flight 447 had 228 people aboard the flight including 3 pilots and 9 other cabin crew. The passengers were 1 baby, 7 children, 82 women and 126 men.

According to an official list made public by Air France, most of the passengers were French, Brazilian, and German citizens. In addition to this, there were some passengers on this flight who either held or may have held dual citizenship.

Two Brazilian executives of Michelin, along with one French executive of the group, were passengers on the flight. Prince Pedro Luís of Orléans-Bragança, third in line of succession to the extinct throne of Brazil, was on the flight. He had dual Brazilian-Belgian citizenship. He lived in Luxembourg where he worked for a bank and was returning from a visit to his relatives in Rio de Janeiro.

Air France Flight 447 Passenger
Nationality — Passengers
France — 61
Brazil — 58 (57)
Germany — 26
Italy — 9
People’s Republic of China — 9
Switzerland — 6
Lebanon — 5
United Kingdom — 5
Hungary — 4
Ireland — 3
Norway — 3
Slovakia — 3
Morocco — 2
Poland — 2
Spain — 2
United States — 2
Argentina — 1
Austria — 1
Belgium — 1
Canada — 1
Croatia — 1
Denmark — 1
Estonia — 1
Gambia — 1
Iceland — 1
Netherlands — 1
Philippines — 1
Romania — 1
Russia — 1
Sweden — 1
South Africa — 1
South Korea — — (1)
Turkey — 1

On the list of passengers were also the head of the office of the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, with his wife, and a former conductor of the Symphony Orchestras of the Brasilia National Theatre and the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre. The chairman of German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp’s Brazilian unit Company Atlantic Siderúrgica (CSA) was also on board

Air France Flight 447 Passenger Memorial will be held Wednesday, 3 June 2009, at 16:00 CEST (14:00 UTC). Air France Flight 447 Passenger memorial is an ecumenical service that will be happening at Notre Dame de Paris in honor of the people aboard the flight.

Debris confirms crash of Air France Flight 447

FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil – An airplane seat, a fuel slick and pieces of white debris scattered over three miles of open ocean marked the site in the mid-Atlantic Tuesday where Brazilian officials said Air France Flight 447 crashed.

Brazilian military pilots spotted the wreckage, sad reminders bobbing on waves, in the ocean 400 miles northeast of these islands off Brazil’s coast. The plane carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris went down in waters up to three miles deep Sunday night.

“I can confirm that the five kilometers of debris are those of the Air France plane,” Defense Minister Nelson Jobim told reporters at a hushed press conference in Rio. He said no bodies had been found and there was no sign of life. Full story of Air France Flight 447 Debris by  - AP News

Partial List of Air France Flight 447 Passenger’s Names From Media Reports

1.) Eirch Heine – President of Admistration Council of ThyssenKrupp-Companhia Siderurgica do Atlantico(CSA)
2.) Luis Roberto Anastacio – President Michelin South America
3.) Antonio Guerios – IT Director Michelin
4.) Christin Pieraerts – Employee Michelin
5.) Dr. Roberto Correa Chem – Plastic Surgeon – Director of Skin Bank and Chief of Plastic Surgery Service of Porto Alegre Hospital.(Porto Alegre is a City in the South of Brazil)
6.) Vera Chem (Wife of Dr. Chem)
7.) Leticia Chem (daughter of Dr. Chem – International Roaming manager of OI Phone Company
8.) Deise Possamai
9.) Marcelo Parente – Chief of Staff of Rio de Janeiro Mayor.
10.) Leonardo Veloso Dardengo – Oceanographer
11.) Pedro Luiz de Orleans e Braganca – Prince – Descendant of Don Pedro II Brazilian Emperor 1822-1831
12.) Rino Zandonai – Director of the Trentini Nel Mondo Onlus Association – Italy
13.) Giambattista Lenzi – Regional Conselor of Trentino Alto Adige – Italy
14.) Gianni Zortea – Mayor, Canal San Bovo – Italy
15.) Silvio Barbato – Conductor Rio Municipal Theater. (source: NowPublic)