Search efforts were under way on Monday following the disappearance of an Air France Airbus passenger jet bearing 216 passengers and 12 crew members en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. After ...

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, ...

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 ...

French investigators have recovered all the flight data and cockpit voice recordings from the recorders of an Air France jet found in the Atlantic nearly two years after it crashed, they said today.

After a 17-year-long legal battle, Airbus and Air France have been found guilty of "corporate manslaughter" for a 2009 plane crash, which killed 228 people. Thursday's verdict by the Paris Appeals ...

Airbus and Air France have been convicted of involuntary manslaughter over the 2009 crash of Flight AF447, one of the deadliest aviation disasters in French history. A Paris appeals court ruled ...

Air France and Airbus were found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter on Monday in connection with a 2009 plane crash that led to the deaths of 228 people. In 2009, Flight 447 from Rio to Paris ...

Popular Mechanics' recent feature narrating Air France flight 447's final five minutes gives one of the most detailed and sensory-rich accounts of the mysterious crash, and from it we can start to ...

The Air France Flight 447 disaster began when blocked Pitot probes caused erroneous airspeed indications, leading to the disengagement of the autopilot and autothrust systems. Despite the automation ...

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 ...

Until debris from the missing aircraft began to surface on June 6, Air France Flight 447 and its 228 passengers and crew seemed to have vanished into thin air. There were no last-minute distress calls ...