Philipat
as sarcastic as it may sound, there were not enough 'real' french passports on board...
We unforatunately live in a world where the passport of the person gone amiss is more important than anything else. After all those passports sell the newspapers.
In the case of AF447 don't forget that a lot of speculation is fuelled by the fact that the A330-200 is the basis for a certain tanker aircraft as well...
Maybe our thoughts should be on today's 3 500 people who have and will die in a traffic accident and the aproximate 55 000 who will die of hunger? I know they don't sell headlines, but their deaths are as real as the others.