Considering the flight left two hours early, I'd suspect more than just that group might have missed the flight.
Pretty sad situation over there (again).
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Looks like they have pings from the black box, found the tail section and trying to raise it with flotation devices, and I think they have 42 bodies recovered so far.
Flight data recorder in hand. Will be pulling data soon. Cockpit voice recorder has been found and will be picked up shortly. Should know pretty soon what happened.
vertical stabilizer was still attached to the tail so the fears of airbus stabilizers is put to rest in this one I believe.