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 ...

The Air France Flight 447 crash was initiated by erroneous airspeed indications due to iced Pitot probes, causing the autopilot and auto-thrust to disengage. The flight crew, primarily the two first ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flight 447 relative Wilfried Schmid holds a placard that reads ‘French Justice 13 years too late' (REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes) Airbus ...

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 ...

Faulty Pitot tubes—speed sensors that are crucial for auto-pilot navigation—surfaced as one of the leading theories explaining why Air France 447 crashed in 2009. The latest black box analysis ...

In 2009, Air France Flight 447 vanished over the Atlantic - triggering one of the most mysterious and tragic aviation disasters in modern history. What followed was a harrowing search, a shocking ...

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 ...

Air France and Airbus have been found guilty of manslaughter following a devastating plane crash in 2009 that killed 228 people. Both the airline and the aircraft manufacturer were convicted of ...

Since an Air France jet crashed off the coast of Brazil in 2009, some foreign regulators and airlines have moved much faster to advance technology. By Nicola Clark Pilots suspended cooperation with ...

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