Air France acknowledged on Saturday that speed monitors on some of its Airbus planes have proven faulty, icing up at high altitude, and that recommendations to change them were first made in ...

Air France flight 447 was en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris May 31, 2009, when it when down in the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people aboard. Its last known communication was about four ...

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 ...

Air France Flight 447’s flight recordings show the aircraft slowed to a stall after its airspeed sensors failed while the two co-pilots were at the controls, two people with knowledge of the ...

This much is known about Air France Flight 447, which crashed on a routine overnight flight between Brazil and Paris on May 31, 2009: The plane was flying at 35,000 feet when it encountered ...

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.

PARIS — Search crews in the mid-Atlantic have retrieved the bodies of the chief pilot of Flight 447 and a flight attendant, Air France said Thursday. The two are among 50 bodies pulled out of ...

A search team located Air France Flight 447’s cockpit voice recorder and retrieved it from the Atlantic Ocean floor on Tuesday, nearly two years after the Airbus A330 crashed while en route from ...

FAB/Getty Brazilian Air Force crew members look over the Atlatic Ocean in search of the wreckage of missing Air France flight 447 on June 3, 2009. The plane’s ‘black boxes’ may be unrecoverable.

The mystery of Air France Flight 447, the Airbus A330 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, may soon be solved.

June 18, 2009 -- Air France flight 447 crashed en route to Paris after leaving Rio de Janeiro May 31. Nineteen days later, here's the very latest on the search for clues about the accident.