Le Bourget, France: French investigators describe a string of unexplained pilot errors and unreliable equipment in a report on the 2009 crash of an Air France plane in the Atlantic. Based on its probe into the crash so far, the French air accident investigation agency is recommending mandatory training for all pilots to help them fly planes manually and handle a high-altitude stall. The BEA agency released a summary of...
04:00 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Paris: Pilots wrestled with the controls of an Air France airliner for more than four minutes before it plunged into the Atlantic with its nose up, killing all 228 people on board, French investigators said on Friday. Aviation industry sources told Reuters pilots appeared to have acted contrary to normal procedures in raising, rather than lowering, its nose in response to an alert that the the plane was about to...
10:37 PM, May 27, 2011
Paris: French investigators on Tuesday recovered the cockpit voice recorder from an Air France flight that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean almost two years ago, killing all 228 people on board. The machine that records cockpit conversations was located on Monday and raised from the ocean depths on Tuesday, according to BEA, the French agency that probes air accidents. The plane's flight data recorder was pulled out on Sunday, meaning...
05:07 PM, May 03, 2011
Paris: Specialists could start pulling up bodies and wreckage from an Air France plane found on the Atlantic Ocean floor within a month, after the stunning deep-water discovery raised new hope of determining the cause of the 2009 crash. Investigators said on Monday they still haven't found the plane's "black box" flight recorders, and it's unclear whether they remain attached to the fuselage, or whether they're even still intact after...
10:00 AM, Apr 05, 2011
A MiG-29 scrambled to investigate the identity of the plane coming from Pak. ...
08:29 PM, Aug 27, 2009
The Airbus 340 made an emergency landing 31 minutes after taking off. ...
01:46 PM, Jul 23, 2009
The cause of the accident is as yet unknown, search continues. ...
04:05 PM, Jul 03, 2009
French officials give no indication they are ending their own search efforts. ...
12:35 PM, Jun 27, 2009
Battery life of the device is typically around 30 days, say makers. ...
09:12 PM, Jun 26, 2009
A pilots' union named the captain as Marc Dubois. ...
04:22 PM, Jun 25, 2009
French military ships detect signal from the black boxes of Flight 447. ...
01:02 PM, Jun 23, 2009
Air France has been in touch with about 1,800 relatives of the crash victims. ...
12:57 AM, Jun 22, 2009
Difficult search conditions in the Atlantic are hampering the process. ...
11:04 AM, Jun 18, 2009
Cause of crash is not yet known, but investigators "getting a little bit closer". ...
07:42 PM, Jun 17, 2009
Air France had begun replacing the sensors, Pitot tubes before accident. ...
09:57 AM, Jun 17, 2009
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