Flight 447

Air France Flight 447 Did Not Break Up, Fell Intact Into Sea: French Investigator

AP | GREG KELLER and EMMA VANDORE | Posted 08.02.2009 | World


LE BOURGET, France — Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people abo...

Air France Pilot, Marc Dubois, Body Retrieved

AP | Posted 07.26.2009 | World


PARIS — Search crews in the mid-Atlantic have retrieved the bodies of the chief pilot of Flight 447 and a flight attendant, Air France said Thur...

Air France Advance: Crash Victims' Families To Receive $24,000

AP | DEBORAH SEWARD | Posted 07.20.2009 | World


PARIS — Air France focused on aiding families of victims from the crash of Flight 447, offering a first advance on compensation on Friday while ...

Air France Crash Bodies Show Fractures: Brazil

AP | STAN LEHMAN and EMMA VANDORE | Posted 07.18.2009 | World


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 Flight 447 Search To Continue

AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 07.17.2009 | World


LE BOURGET, France — The arduous mid-Atlantic search for the remains of Air France Flight 447 will go on as long as there is hope of finding the...

Johanna Ganthaler, Italian Woman Who Missed Flight 447, Killed In Car Accident

Times London | Philippe Naughton | Posted 07.12.2009 | World


An Italian woman who arrived late for the Air France plane flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week has been killed in a car accident. ...

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

AP | MARCO SIBAJA and EMMA VANDORE | Posted 07.11.2009 | World


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 Jets Now Equipped With New Speed Sensors: Union Spokesman

AP | MARCO SIBAJA and GREG KELLER | Posted 07.10.2009 | World


RECIFE, Brazil — Airlines moved quickly Tuesday to replace speed monitors like those suspected of feeding false information to the computers on ...

Air France Bodies Flown To Brazil To Be Identified

AP | MARCO SIBAJA and GREG KELLER | Posted 07.10.2009 | World


RECIFE, Brazil — Airlines moved quickly Tuesday to replace speed monitors like those suspected of feeding false information to the computers on ...

Flight 447: Air France Union Calls For Grounding All Airbus A330s Until Upgraded

bloomberg.com | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business


June 8 (Bloomberg) -- An Air France labor union called on pilots to refuse to fly Airbus SAS A330s and A340s until the airline replaces speed sensors ...

Air France Flight Sent 24 Error Messages Minutes Before It Crashed

BBC News | Posted 07.07.2009 | World


The Air France jet which went missing over the Atlantic sent 24 error messages minutes before it crashed, French investigators say....

Air France Debris NOT Found Yet: French Minister

AP | MARCO SIBAJA and GREG KELLER | Posted 07.06.2009 | World


RECIFE, Brazil — Days after Air France Flight 447 vanished, an intensive international effort has failed to recover any confirmed wreckage and c...

Flight 447 Passengers List

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 07.05.2009 | World


A list of the named crew and passengers aboard Air France Flight 447, which crashed in the Atlantic Ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris carryi...

Air France Jet Probably Broke Apart In Midair: Official

AP | BRADLEY BROOKS and JOAN LOWY | Posted 07.05.2009 | World


RIO DE JANEIRO — Investigators trying to determine why Air France Flight 447 broke apart in a violent storm over the Atlantic are looking at the...

Missing Air France Plane: How Did It Crash?

AP | FEDERICO ESCHER and BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 07.04.2009 | World


FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil — Military planes located new debris from Air France Flight 447 Wednesday while investigators focused on a nightmari...

Air France Debris Found, Black Box Recorder Missing

Denise Dennis | Posted 07.04.2009 | World


Denise Dennis

The black box recorder emits a radio signal, but only for a month. And before they can find the recorder, they must locate the wreckage.

Flight 447 Search: Plane Seat Cushion, Debris Found In Path Air France Jet Took

AP | FEDERICO ESCHER and BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 07.03.2009 | World


FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil — An airplane seat, a fuel slick and pieces of white debris scattered over three miles of open ocean marked the site...

Flight 447: Stormy Seas, Heavy Clouds Hamper Search For Air France Jet

AP | FEDERICO ESCHER and BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 07.03.2009 | World


FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil — An airplane seat, a fuel slick and pieces of white debris scattered over three miles of open ocean marked the site...