'F***, we're dead!': Pilot's cry as Air France jet plunged into Atlantic as final moments of doomed Flight 447 and its two sleeping pilots are revealed

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. 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. Excerpts from recorded conversations between 37-year-old David Robert, Pierre-Cedric Bonin (right), 32, and Marc Dubois (left), the 58-year-old captain of the plane, reveal that two of them were asleep when the plane got into difficulty in a tropical storm.