Air France Crash

'Damn It, We're Going To Crash:' Final Words Of Air France 447 Crew

www.dailymail.co.uk | Posted 12.14.2011

A new book has revealed the final words of the cockpit crew of doomed Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the South Atlantic off the coast of Br...

Pilot Errors And Technical Problems Cause Of 2009 Air France Crash

AP | ELAINE GANLEY | Posted 09.28.2011

LE BOURGET, France — A confused cockpit crew without proper training to head off high-altitude disaster flew toward it, instead, with wrong-head...

75 More Bodies Pulled From Air France Wreckage

AOL Travel News | Posted 08.01.2011

A French search team has pulled 75 more bodies from the wreckage of Air France Flight 447, which crashed en route to Paris on June 1, 2009. Reuters...

Body From 2009 Air France Crash In Atlantic Raised

AP | Posted 07.05.2011

PARIS -- A body from the 2009 Air France crash that killed all 228 people aboard has been raised from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. A statement f...

Second Air France Crash Black Box Found

Posted 07.03.2011

PARIS (Reuters) – Search parties scouring the sea bed off Brazil's northeast coast have recovered the second of two flight recorders from the Ai...

Black Box Found: Missing Memory Unit Could Reveal How 228 People Died

AP | Posted 07.01.2011

PARIS -- Investigators have located and recovered the missing memory unit of the flight data recorder of a 2009 Air France flight – a remarkable...

New Air France Wreckage Discovered, Raising Hopes For Answers

AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 06.03.2011

PARIS — Underwater search teams have located pieces of an Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009, French investigators said Sunda...

Air France Faces Manslaughter Charges For 2009 Crash

AP | By PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD | Posted 05.25.2011

PARIS -- A French judge filed preliminary charges Friday against Air France over a 2009 crash that killed all 228 people aboard a jet that plunged int...

Air France 447 Lawsuit Alleges Cockpit Computers Caused Disaster

John T. Halliday | Posted 05.25.2011

John T. Halliday

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Air France Jet Suffers 5,000 Foot Plunge At Same Spot As Doomed Brazil Flight

Posted 05.25.2011

PARIS -- French aviation investigators are examining an emergency distress call from an Air France flight hit by turbulence last month, saying it coul...

Air France 447: A Cockpit China Syndrome

John T. Halliday | Posted 05.25.2011

John T. Halliday

My conclusions about the causes of the Air France 447 tragedy have been shaped not just by my decades as an international airline captain and cockpit computer analyst, but by learning from world-class experts. Here are a few of their voices.

Air France 447: A Cockpit China Syndrome

John T. Halliday | Posted 05.25.2011

John T. Halliday

You feel silly; you Googled the odds of dying in a plane crash: one in thirteen million. You'll take those. But then again, pilots don't call these 'Scarebuses' for nothing.

Air France Plane Hits Congo Building With No Injuries

AP | LEON MOUKOURI | Posted 05.25.2011

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo — An Air France Airbus 330 carrying 168 passengers hit a building after landing in Congo's capital, but no one wa...

Air France Crash Bodies Show Fractures: Brazil

AP | STAN LEHMAN and EMMA VANDORE | Posted 05.25.2011

SAO PAULO — Autopsies have revealed fractures in the legs, hips and arms of Air France disaster victims, injuries that _ along with the large pi...

Air France Speed Sensors Arrived Days Before Crash

Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Air France received a delivery of new speed sensors for its Airbus SAS A330 planes just days before 228 people died in a crash that may have been trig...

Air France Crash: Submarine Arrives At Scene To Hunt Black Boxes

AP | MARCO SIBAJA and EMMA VANDORE | Posted 05.25.2011

RECIFE, Brazil — The urgent hunt for the black boxes of Air France Flight 447 received a boost Wednesday _ a French nuclear submarine scoured th...

Air France Tail Found; Hunt For Black Boxes Continues With US Help

AP | MARCO SIBAJA and BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 05.25.2011

RECIFE, Brazil — Search crews recovered the vertical stabilizer from the tail section of an Air France airliner that went down in the Atlantic, ...

Bodies Found Near Air France Crash Site: Brazil

AP | MARCO SIBAJA and EMMA VANDORE | Posted 05.25.2011

RECIFE, Brazil — Searchers found two passengers' bodies and a briefcase containing an Air France Flight 447 ticket in the Atlantic Ocean near wh...

Travelers Who Missed Air France Flight Speak

AP | GREG KELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

PARIS — A reservation mix-up, an overbooking and a Brazilian cabbie's passion for soccer are all that saved some would-be passengers on Air Fran...

World In Photos: June 1, 2009

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...