Air France, Airbus Face Court Again As AF447 Appeal Gets Underway

AF447 trial Sept 2025
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Air France and Airbus are once again in court in Paris over the 2009 accident of Air France Flight AF447 in which 228 people died, as an appeal following an earlier acquittal began Sept. 29. Flight AF447, an Airbus A330-200, crashed into the Atlantic on June 1, 2009, while en route from Rio de...
Helen Massy-Beresford

Based in Paris, Helen Massy-Beresford covers European and Middle Eastern airlines, the European Commission’s air transport policy and the air cargo industry for Aviation Week & Space Technology and Aviation Daily.

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