Two out of three pilots were sleeping minutes before the Air France plane plunged into the sea off Brazil in 2009, with the loss of all 228 people on board, media reported on Monday.

Horrific details of the last moments of Flight 447 have emerged in a disturbing new investigation into the 2009 disaster involving an Airbus 330, Daily Mail online reported.

Recorded conversations between 37-year-old David Robert, Pierre-Cedric Bonin, 32, and Marc Dubois, the 58-year-old captain of the plane, reveal that two of them were asleep when the plane got into difficulty in a tropical storm, said the report.

It said the findings "raised terrifying questions about safety aboard civilian passenger jets," and the "culture" of the Air France pilots on board, the report said.

By Ruchi Singh

Park Sae-jin swatchsjp@ajunews.com

Pilots were sleeping when Air France flight crashed: report

Two out of three pilots were sleeping minutes before the Air France plane plunged into the sea off Brazil in 2009, with the loss of all 228 people on board, media reported on Monday.

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