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.

Flight path of AF447. Photo: Courtesy, BEA. The French BEA's latest interim report on its investigation into the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447 indicated that the pilots were inadequately ...

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 ...

See About archive blog posts. Investigators are looking into lots of causes that would explain why Air France Flight 447 exploded over the Atlantic, killing all 228 passengers and crew members aboard.

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.

Tim Vasquez, a predecessor of mine at my last TV stop has conducted a remarkable analysis of the meteorological conditions surrounding the crash of Air France Flight 447 over the equatorial ...

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 ...

"Air France has provided us with an extremely proactive and very accelerated replacement programme,“ said Erick Derivry, spokesman for the main SNPL pilots union. "From today, all Air France ...

“123xyz” asks: Do flight data recorders record faulty data from faulty sensors? We imagine investigators correlate and triangulate all available information . . . or do they?

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.” ...

It's a lot smarter. And it dives a lot deeper. Yesterday, the tenacious underwater 'bot located at long last the remains of Air France flight 447, which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1 ...

PARIS (AP) — 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.