An appeals trial of Air France and Airbus opened Monday over the 2009 crash of Rio-Paris flight AF447 that killed 228 people.

The mystery of what took down Air France Flight 447 over the Atlantic, killing all 228 on board, has haunted investigators for two years. Now aviation expert Clive Irving reconstructs a timeline of ...

An appeals trial of Air France and Airbus opens today over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight that killed 228 people, the worst disaster in the French flag carrier’s history. On June 1, 2009, Air ...

An update on the investigation chronicles the final minutes. May 27, 2011 -- It took three minutes and 30 seconds for Air France flight 447 to descend 38,000 feet before it plunged into the Atlantic ...

The tragic crash of Air France 447 (AF447) in 2009 sent shock waves around the world. The loss was difficult to understand given the remarkable safety record of commercial aviation. How could a ...

FERNANDO DE NORONHA ? A Brazilian helicopter crew recovered the first wreckage from Air France Flight 447 on Thursday, fishing a structural support piece about eight feet (2.5 meters) long from the ...

PARIS (Reuters) -A French appeals court will begin a new trial on Monday of Air France and Airbus ... in 2023 following a historic public trial over the disappearance of flight AF447 while en route ...

Another report on the crash of Air France Flight 447 has leaked, this time indicating that it was malfunctioning air speed sensors, called pitot tubes, that caused the Airbus A330 to stall and then ...

The plane apparently encountered heavy icing, causing sensors to malfunction. May 24, 2011 -- Nearly two years after Air France flight 447 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 228 people, the ...

The newest report from the French investigation bureau BEA finds that confusion reigned in the cockpit as the doomed Air France flight 447 fell out of the sky and into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, ...

Weather has been raised by officials and reporters as a factor in the lossof Air France flight 447, which went missing on Sunday evening, EDT. Theflight, bound to Paris, France, from Rio de Janeiro, ...