61 French, 58 Brazilians, 26 Germans, nine Chinese, nine Italians, six Swiss, five British, five Lebanese, four Hungarians, three Irish, three Norwegians, three Slovaks, two Americans, two Moroccans and individuals from Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Demark, the Netherlands, Estonia, the Philippines, The Gambia, Iceland, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Sweden and Turkey.
Give up? These representatives of 30 nations were aboard Air France flight 447. It is completely possible that this tragedy is the furthest reaching of its kind. Every inhabited continent. Countries poor and wealthy; large and small.
I can’t remember such a far reaching tragedy since the World Trade Center collapse.