Air France having a press conference as we speak, watching it live on sky uk. translator is...bad
Apparently the crew was very experienced on the A330.
Doing everything possible.
Plane entered a storm zone.
Air France seem keen to rule out terrorism.
Received some automated messages regarding weather.
Seem fairly sure it is around 400nm off Brazil (I think thats what they said, I only caught the last bit of that response).
EDIT: 15 minutes after they lost contact, they received the automatic messages re: turbulence.