3 Irish doctors on board missing flight

THREE young Irish doctors were among the 228 people on board an Air France jet that vanished en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

Officials have said they believe flight AF447 ran into a towering wall of thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean, between Brazil and the African coast.

The Irish women are Jane Deasy from Dublin, Aisling Butler from Roscrea, Co Tipperary, and Eithne Walls from Belfast.