Air France Flight 459, 37 minutes behind Flight 447, was taking similar action—flying 70 to 80 miles east of the original route and climbing from 35,000 feet to 37,000 feet.

U ntil debris from the missing aircraft began to surface on June 6, Air France Flight 447 and its 228 passengers and crew seemed to have vanished into thin air. There were no last-minute distress ...

A Brazilian helicopter crew recovered the first wreckage from Air France Flight 447 on Thursday, fishing a structural support piece about eight feet (2.5 meters) long from the ocean.

June 8, 2009 -- An "ocean of debris" now surrounds divers recovering wreckage and bodies from Air France flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean, and searchers today recovered the stabilizer from the ...

Brazilian military pilots first spotted the floating debris early Tuesday in two areas about 35 miles apart, said air force spokesman Jorge Amaral. The area is not far off the flight path of ...

Air France CEO Pierre-Henry Gourgeon noted on Monday that immediately preceding AF447’s disappearance, automatic messages sent by the plane indicated “multiple technical failures.” ...

An airplane seat, a life jacket, metallic debris and signs of fuel were found in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday by Brazilian military pilots searching for a missing Air France ...

Faulty Pitot tubes—speed sensors that are crucial for auto-pilot navigation—surfaced as one of the leading theories explaining why Air France 447 crashed in 2009.

May 31, 2009 10 p.m. GMT— 216 passengers and 12 crew members — including three pilots — have boarded the Air France flight 447 in Rio de Janeiro.

So, you know those black boxes they found from Air France Flight 447, which crashed midway between a flight from Sao Paulo to Paris? They managed to recover all the data from them. Investigators ...

Weather has been raised by officials and reporters as a factor in the lossof Air France flight 447, which went missing on Sunday evening, EDT. Theflight, bound to Paris, France, from Rio de ...