Yesterday I mentioned one informed hypothesis about the accident-chain that brought Air France 447 down into the Atlantic Ocean: pitot-tube trouble, leading to autopilot trouble, leading to manual ...

As everybody knows, on Jun 1, 2009, an Airbus 330 of the Air France, flying as AF447 from Rio de Janeiro (SBGL) to Paris (LFPG) was reported missing while overflying the equatorial Atlantic Ocean.

PARIS (Reuters) -Airbus and Air France pleaded not guilty to manslaughter on Monday at the start of a new two-month trial over France's worst air disaster, 16 years after a Paris-bound jet crashed ...

Investigation into the accident sequence of Air France flight AF447 has revealed that the Airbus A330 did not enter the abnormal attitude law after it stalled, despite its excessive angle of attack.

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As the French team leading the investigation into the Air France Flight 447 crash works through the multitude of likely and less likely disaster scenarios — from the repercussions of stormy conditions ...

Thirty lines of computer code might have saved Air France flight 447, and 228 passengers and crew aboard, from plunging into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, according to new research. Scientists ...

Initial details of the handover of Air France flight AF447 from Brazil to Senegal have opened a rift between the two states, as investigators attempt to establish how long the Airbus A330 was out of ...

One of the more interesting responses to my recent piece on the fate of Air France 447 came from the Atlantic Wire, which took my description of the sounds and smells that the pilots experienced as a ...

Airbus, Air France Reject Blame Over AF447 Crash, 16 Years On By Tim Hepher and Lucien Libert PARIS (Reuters) -Airbus and Air France pleaded not guilty to manslaughter on Monday at the start of a new ...