Terror suspects 'on board doomed Air France flight'
Two men linked to Islamic terrorism among 228 on board Air France jet that crashed last week, reports claim
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Two men linked to Islamic terrorism were among the 228 on board the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic last week, it has emerged.
Intelligence sources told Paris weekly Told L'Express that French secret service agents had discovered the two names on passenger lists passed to them in Brazil.
Flight AF477 came down in the Atlantic hours after leaving Rio de Janeiro on May 31st.
A series of automated warnings were issued by the plane prior to it disappearing from radar contact, proving it encountered electronic difficulties, but terrorism has not been explicitly ruled out.
The intelligence source told L'Express that the two names could prove to be "macabre coincidence" but was still a "highly significant" development.
So far, Brazilian and French rescue crews have recovered 41 bodies from ocean, although the exact crash site has not yet been established.