OREANDA-NEWS. June 02, 2009.  “I am bereaved in memory of the crew and passengers from more than 30 countries who were on board flight AF 447,” President Toomas Hendrik Ilves wrote in his expression of sympathy that he sent to the Heads of States of France and Brazil.

“The catastrophe over the Atlantic painfully touches many of us, including Estonia. In the name of the people of Estonia, I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.”