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.

It took three minutes and 30 seconds for Air France flight 447 to descend 38,000 feet before plunging into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 228, according to France's Bureau of Investigation and Analysis.

Nearly two years after Air France flight 447 plunged into the Atlantic ocean killing 228 people, the plane's black boxes, discovered early last month, reveal the pilots' actions may have ...

The plane’s flight data recorder tracks roughly 1,300 different statistics, including the plane’s position, speed, altitude and direction when it began to experience difficulties.