![Lost at sea: 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](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/13/1413194525277_wps_1_Brazilian_Navy_sailors_pi.jpg)
!['Company baby': Marc Dubois (left), the 58-year-old captain of the plane had gone for a sleep after staying up all night with his girlfriend the night before, leaving inexperienced Pierre-Cedric Bonin (right), 32, alone at the controls](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/13/1413199434717_wps_28_Pierre_Cedric_Bonin_pictu.jpg)
!['Company baby': Marc Dubois (left), the 58-year-old captain of the plane had gone for a sleep after staying up all night with his girlfriend the night before, leaving inexperienced Pierre-Cedric Bonin (right), 32, alone at the controls](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/13/1413199434713_wps_27_Flight_Captain_Marc_Duboi.jpg)
![Questions: 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](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/13/1413196159318_wps_13_Brazil_s_Navy_sailors_rec.jpg)
![The Airbus 330 crashed after suffering a loss of lift - or a 'stall'. But instead of lowering the plane's nose to deal with the stall, as they should have done according to normal procedures, the pilots raised it (stock image)](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/13/1413195552904_wps_4_Air_France_Airbus_A330_pl.jpg)
![Anguish: Relatives and friends arrive at Tom Jobim airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 01 June 2009, to receive information about the crash](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/13/1413195818266_wps_6_Relatives_and_friends_arr.jpg)
![Jane Deasy (Left) and Aisling Butler (Right)were](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/13/1413195850247_wps_7_Jane_Deasy_Left_and_Aisli.jpg)
![Long search: It took two years to retrieve bodies from the bottom of the sea, along with essential records such as the flight's voice recorder](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/13/1413195686388_wps_5_A_flight_data_recorder_se.jpg)
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!’
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