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Aberdeen director feared dead in Brazil plane crash
It's thought the director of an Aberdeen based oil firm was on the doomed flight from Brazil to Paris..
Arthur Coakley, who works for Project Design and Management Services, is thought to have been on the flight..
His wife Patricia says she fears the worst.
She says he wasn't supposed to be on the ill-fated flight, but his return date had been cancelled twice.
Pilots from the Brazilian airline TAM say they saw what they thought was a fire on the ocean near the missing plane's route.
Military aircraft are sweeping an area of the Atlantic for the Air France jet which vanished yesterday carrying 228 people.
