French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva discussed in Paris on July 7 the cooperation between the two countries on the search operation and investigation following the June 1 air crash of Air France Flight 447 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
"There is a black hole. This is not normal," Sarkozy said at a joint news conference with Lula.
Sarkozy said Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Cooperation Minister Alain Joyandet were headed to Senegal to see "how we can avoid this black hole, this void in communications."
The June 1 crash of the Air France flight killed all 228 people on board when the plane crashed into the Atlantic. The cause of the disaster remains unknown.
French investigators reported last week that the Air France Flight 447 failed to contact with flight controllers in Dakar after leaving Brazil's airspace and they were slow to realize that the plane was missing.
