An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris ran into a towering wall of thunderstorms and disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean. French President Nicolas Sarkozy told families of those aboard Monday that "prospects of finding survivors are very small."The area where the plane could have gone down is vast, in the middle of very deep Atlantic Ocean waters between Brazil and the coast of Africa.Brazil's military searched for it off its northeast coast, while the French military scoured the ocean near the Cape Verde Islands off the West African coast.If all 228 were killed, it would be the world's deadliest commercial airline disaster since 2001. "(I met with) a mother who lost her son, a fiancee who lost her future husband. I told them the truth," he said.Sarkozy said "it will be very difficult" to find the plane because the zone where it is believed to have disappeared "is immense." He said France has asked for U.S. satellite help to locate the plane. Chief Air France spokesman Francois Brousse said "it is possible" the plane was hit by lightning. People said,"the lighting was too strong to bring the plane down.
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