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 ...

Air France 447: A tragedy that should never have happened - The startle effect generated ‘a highly charged emotional factor for the two co-pilots’, found investigators ...

A Paris appeals court has found Airbus and Air France guilty of manslaughter in the 2009 crash of Flight 447 from Rio to ...

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 ...

The Air France 447 accident highlighted how an unexpected technical failure (pitot tube icing) combined with the "startle effect" and inadequate pilot training led to catastrophic crew confusion and ...

The mystery of Air France Flight 447, the Airbus A330 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, may soon be solved. After a two-year, multi-million-dollar search, the plane's two "black ...

Air France 447 did not experience a "deep stall" as technically defined, despite being in a prolonged, deeply stalled condition during its descent. A deep stall is a specific aerodynamic condition, ...

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 ...

What happened to Air France Flight 447? More than two years after the crash that took 228 lives, a new interim report from France's air accident investigation agency (BEA), based on cockpit voice and ...

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 ...