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 ...

Relatives of victims of the 2009 Rio-Paris air crash have provided evidence they say supports their claim that Airbus knew of problems with an onboard instrument five years earlier, it emerged Sunday.

A French appeals court convicted Air France and Airbus of involuntary manslaughter on Thursday over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight that killed 228 people, the worst disaster in France's aviation ...

A French appeals court has found Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter over the 2009 AF447 crash, reviving legal and reputational risks just as the jet maker pushes ahead with record ...

Airbus and Air France have been found guilty of corporate manslaughter in the 2009 crash of flight AF447 over the Atlantic. Airbus has announced it will appeal against the verdict of the court in ...

Ruling comes 17 years after fatal crash of Air France A330 and legal arguments over aircraft systems and pilot training. Airbus is appealing after a Paris court overturned an acquittal of the ...

Divers recovering part of the tail section from the Air France A330 aircraft that crashed in midflight over the Atlantic ocean on June 1, 2009. [AFP] A French appeals court Thursday convicted Air ...

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"The AF447 crash was a disaster waiting to happen -- and one that could have been avoided if each of the companies involved had fully grasped the seriousness of the failure," said Sylvie Madec. Both ...