Airbus and Air France to face the music for 2009 crash

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Court orders manslaughter prosecution for an accident that killed 228 people

Cargo on trolleys beside an Airbus SE A330 passenger aircraft, operated by Air France-KLM, at Charles de Gaulle airport on May 10 2021. Picture: NATHAN LAINE/BLOOMBERG

The ruling reverses a 2019 decision not to prosecute either company over the accident, in which the pilots lost control of the Airbus A330 jet after ice blocked its airspeed sensors. “The court decision that has just been announced does not reflect in any way the conclusions of the investigation,” Airbus said in an e-mailed statement.

Air France flight AF447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed on June 1 2009, killing everyone on board. French investigators found that the crew had mishandled the situation arising from the loss of speed data from sensors blocked with ice and caused an aerodynamic stall by holding the aircraft’s nose too high.

 

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