Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 ... a critical piece of equipment that tells the pilot the aircraft's air speed, failed, likely from ice crystals forming on it ...

Air France flight 447 had been in the air for three hours ... more and more ice was hurled at the aircraft. In the process, it knocked out other, far more important, sensors: the pencil-shaped ...

The crash of Air France Flight 447 stumped investigators for more than ... Then there is the unexplained location and condition of the tail of the aircraft. It was one of the only large pieces ...

Many parallels between AirAsia 8501 and Air France 447 in June 2009 are obvious. Both aircraft were lost in thunderstorm areas of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Both crashed at sea ...

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the loss of Air France Flight 447 over the Atlantic Ocean ... by becoming clogged with ice or water. The aircraft's autopilot, which needs to know the ...

In the early hours of June 1 2009, Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris went missing, along with 216 passengers and 12 crew. The Airbus A330-200 disappeared mid-ocean, beyond radar ...

Paris — More than a decade after Air France Flight 447 plummeted into the Atlantic ... pilots and the layout of the cockpits in Airbus aircraft. Elaine Cobbe is a CBS News correspondent based ...

As they near 2000 feet, the aircraft’s sensors detect the fast ... Brazil. Today, the Air France 447 transcripts yield information that may ensure that no airline pilot will ever again make ...

In 2009, Air France Flight 447 vanished over the Atlantic - triggering ... used by Pakistan to shoot down India’s Western-made aircraft set off alarm bells in defense sector President Trump ...

The causes of Air France 447 have been the subject of much debate since the aircraft’s black boxes were recovered earlier this year. While BEA investigators have pointed to the pilots’ lack of ...

Many parallels between AirAsia 8501 and Air France 447 in June 2009 are obvious. Both aircraft were lost in thunderstorm areas of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Both crashed at sea ...