UK schoolboy, 11, on missing plane
An 11-year-old prep school pupil was among the five Britons on the airliner which vanished over the Atlantic, it has been announced.
Alexander Bjoroy, who attended Clifton College preparatory school in Bristol, was one of 228 people aboard the missing Air France Airbus A330.
A receptionist at the school said: "We are doing all we can to support the family."
As Brazilian and French planes continued to scour the Atlantic searching for the plane, aviation experts stressed the importance of finding the aircraft's "black box" flight data recorder.
The experts also pointed out that it was by no means certain that the plane, flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, had been struck by lightning.
Three Irish women, all in their 20s, were also on the plane, which had 12 crew. The 216 passengers included a baby and seven children.
French maritime patrol planes took off from Senegal to look for signs of the lost airliner. Brazilian air force planes have been searching the Atlantic since Monday.
