Prince Pedro Luis De Orleans E Braganca

Prince Pedro Luis De Orleans E Braganca, a member of Brazil's now-defunct royal family and descendent of DOM Pedro II, the nation's last emperor was on the plane.

Prince Pedro Luis de Orleans e Braganca third in line for the Brazilian throne and 35th in line for the French throne, was confirmed to have been on the missing airplane Air France Flight 447.

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Wreckage has been found in the Atlantic Ocean that could have come from a missing Air France jet that disappeared early Monday with 228 passengers and crew onboard, Brazilian aviation officials said Tuesday.

Floating objects, a drum, seats, and other items were found 700 kilometers (434 miles) from the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, said Brazilian Air Force spokesman Jorge Amaral. The search will continue but there is not enough material to officially say this is the wreckage from Flight 447, Amaral said.

The Airbus A330 encountered heavy turbulence early Monday, about three hours after the jet left Rio de Janeiro for Paris on an 11-hour flight, according to Air France CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon.

The majority of the presumed dead from the flight came from Brazil, France and Germany. Two Americans were onboard. In addition, victims came from 26 other countries.

Fernando de Noronha is an archipelago of 21 islands around 354 kilometers (220 miles) off the northeast coast of Brazil. It lies in what could be the flight path between Rio de Janeiro, where the plane departed, and Paris, the flight's destination.

A report by the crew from the Brazilian airline TAM who said they saw "shiny spots" in the sea along the route of Flight 447 prompted a search in the territorial waters off the African nation of Senegal.

Senegal is northeast of Fernando de Noronha and near what would have been the plane's presumed flight path.

There were two United States Americans onboard the plane and they have been identified as Anne DeBaillon Harris and Mike P. Harris.

Air France said 11 of the 12 crew members were French but did not release their names.

The flight captain, 58, joined Air France in 1988 and had 11,000 hours of flight hours including 1,700 on aircraft of the same type as the A330-200 that disappeared.

The two co-pilots were 37 and 32 and had over 9,000 flight hours between them.

The head of the cabin crew was 49, his deputies were 54 and 46 years old. Of the six flight attendants aged between 24 and 44, one was Brazilian.

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