The map I found most useful to explaining what probably happened to Air France 447 is this image overlay of a weather map at the time of the crash (post by ‘smokeonit’ who is a GEB regular).

Paris — More than a decade after Air France Flight 447 plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean, Winfried Schmidt traveled to Paris from his native Germany to see the airline and Airbus, which made the ...

In 2009, Air France Flight 447 was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris when it went missing. The jet, an Airbus A330 with a similar flight-control system to that of the AirAsia Airbus A320, had ...

Even if the air-speed data had been lost entirely, the pilots could have saved the plane, BEA director Jean-Paul Troadec told reporters. The BEA's full report will be out in early 2012. Tags : ...

Since an Air France jet crashed off the coast of Brazil in 2009, some foreign regulators and airlines have moved much faster to advance technology. By Nicola Clark Pilots suspended cooperation ...

Paul-Louis Arslanian, the director of the French agency investigating the crash of Air France Flight 447, said Monday that investigators could take at least a year-and-a-half to reach a conclusion.

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the loss of Air France Flight 447 over the Atlantic Ocean, and investigators are no closer to resolving the mystery of why the plane crashed. The flight ...

Air France Flight 447 is trending as French aviationauthorities release new details recovered from the plane’s black box. The flightrecorders were discovered on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Air France flight 447 may have stalled at 35,000 feet as it was slowing down to enter a turbulent storm over the Atlantic, leading to its crash. According to a Paris ...

A year after Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, families of some of the 228 victims are demanding a new search for the flight recorders - and for answers. All 228 people aboard ...

Which is why the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447, which killed 228 people, remains so perplexing and significant. William Langewiesche explores how a series of small errors turned a state-of ...

Updated: July 5, 2012 Air France Flight 447 went down on June 1, 2009, in a heavy high-altitude thunderstorm en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro with 228 passengers.</p> <p>A few days after the ...