A French court on Monday cleared European planemaker Airbus and Air France of 'involuntary manslaughter,' almost 14 years after an airliner ploughed into the Atlantic en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing everyone on board.
of "involuntary manslaughter," almost 14 years after an airliner ploughed into the Atlantic en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing everyone on board.over the disappearance of flight AF447 in an equatorial storm on June 1, 2009, with families of some of the 228 victims waging a campaign for justice for more than a decade.
Families greeted the verdict in silence after a sometimes stormy nine-week trial held late last year. "The loser first and foremost is French justice," Daniele Lamy, president of the AF447 victims' association told journalists in the Paris courthouse. After a two-year search for the A330’s black boxes using remote submarines, French civil investigators found pilots had responded clumsily to a problem involving iced-up speed sensors and lurched into a freefall without responding to stall alerts.
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