Senior Executives Feared Dead in Brazil Crash

Michelin’s LatAm head and the chairman of German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp’s Brazilian unit CSA were on board the Air France flight that disappeared over the Atlantic, according to wire reports. Erich Heine, chairman of Companhia Siderurgica do Atlantico and a member of ThyssenKrupp Steel’s executive board, was among the 228 people on the Air France AF447 flight, says Reuters. Michelin’s South America president Luiz Roberto Anastacio and regional IT director Antonio Gueiros were also on the flight, according to AFP. The Air France plane en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared off the radar and was presumed to have crashed Monday after hitting stormy weather. Statements from the operator and the French government suggest that survivors will not be found. There were 58 Brazilians onboard.