A series of errors by pilots and a failure to react effectively to technical problems led to the crash of Air France Flight 447, France’s Bureau of Investigation and Analysis said Thursday in ...

On the evening of May 31, 2009, 216 passengers, three pilots, and nine flight attendants boarded an Airbus A330 in Rio de Janeiro. This flight, Air France 447, was headed across the Atlantic to Paris.

In alternate law, pilots can stall an airplane. PATRICK KOVARIK//Getty Images Investigator-in-charge of flight Air France 447 safety investigation from BEA, Alain Bouillard (L), speaks during a ...

The plane apparently encountered heavy icing, causing sensors to malfunction. May 24, 2011 -- Nearly two years after Air France flight 447 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 228 people, the ...

Reconstruction of 447's final minutes reveal problems in civil aviation. Feb. 26, 2010 -- One tiny technical failure heralded the impending disaster. But the ...

Inside the sleek cockpit of Air France Flight 447, according to aviation experts ... 35,000 feet below that was capable of jostling the pilots so strongly that they may have had difficulty ...

The pilot of doomed Air France Flight 447 left the cockpit right before an ... “He called instructions to the two co-pilots on how to save the aircraft,” upon his return, a source told the ...

By Nicola Clark Air France’s main pilots’ union and relatives of those killed in Flight 447 criticized reports suggesting that crucial errors made by the jet’s crew may have led to the disaster.

We defend the pilots”. Yet Air France has been at a loss to explain ... The families meet to remember the 228 victims of flight 447 every June 1st, at the memorial monument at Père Lachaise ...