'F***, we're dead!': Pilot's cry as Air France jet plunged into Atlantic

Horrific details of the last moments of Flight 447, which claimed the lives of five Britons and three Irish doctors, have emerged in a disturbing new investigation into the 2009 disaster involving an Airbus 330. Published in the October edition of Vanity Fair magazine, it raises terrifying questions about safety aboard civilian passenger jets, and the 'culture' of the Air France pilots on board. SEE PHOTOS BELOW

Excerpts from recorded conversations reveal that plane captain Marc Dubois (bottom left), 58, had gone for a nap leaving ‘anxious junior pilot’ Pierre-Cedric Bonin (bottom right), 32, at the controls. So when the plane stalled over the Atlantic, the pilot did not dip the craft’s nose as he should have done but raised it, prolonging the stall and sending it plummeting into the ocean killing all 228 people on board. Moments before impact one of the pilots can be heard on the flight recorder shouting: ‘F***, we’re dead!’