As the long-awaited criminal trial of Air France and Airbus began in a Parisian court last week, the CEOs of both companies took the stand as the names of the 228 victims of Flight 447 were read out.

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 ...

Complications with the investigation into the destruction of Air France flight AF447 are set to dominate discussions on flight-data retrieval, aircraft communications and tracking at a high-level ICAO ...

Officials scouring the Atlantic seabed have located one of the two flight recorders from Air France flight AF 447. The flight was lost on June 1st 2009, killing all 228 people on board. France’s ...

Search teams trying to locate the flight recorders from Air France flight AF447 have located the flight-data recorder, but not the critical memory unit. The chassis of the recorder was located during ...

PARIS, July 29 (Reuters) - Below is a list of the final manoeuvres of Air France flight AF447 and the last words of the cockpit crew, as detailed in an updated report published on Friday by French air ...

Air France Flight 447 went missing on June 1, 2009 with 216 passengers and 12 crew on board while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. Wreckage ... an engine from Air France Flight 447 on the ocean ...

The findings were immediately rejected by Air France. Air France and aircraft manufacturer Airbus face manslaughter charges. The report also confirmed previous findings that the plane’s airspeed ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Below is a list of the movements made by Air France flight AF447 and the final words of the cockpit crew, as detailed in an update to the investigation published by French air ...

But Flight AF447 was not a few hundred feet above a runway. Within a minute it had soared to 38,000 feet in air so thin that it could climb no more. As forward thrust was lost, downward momentum was ...