AF 447 was an Airbus A330-200, a plane a body fuselage built of metal, but significant levels of composite in its other parts–most importantly, the wings and the tail.

It is conceivable that the materials used to construct parts of the Airbus 330 might have been a factor in the loss of Air France 447. While we may never know for sure whether structural issues ...

Unless I've missed it in my time away from the internets, no one yet knows exactly what happened to Air France flight 447 over the Atlantic Ocean six weeks ago. But whatever went wrong, the ...

AF 447 Final Report Highlights Pilots' Training The co-pilots who were in the cockpit when Air France Flight 447 ran into trouble and then crashed June 1, 2009, were startled and never grasped ...

AF 447: Brazil families demand crash probe Thursday, August 27th 2009 - 16:23 UTC Full article All 228 passengers and crew aboard the Air France flight were killed ...

I have a link to the failures that occurred on AF 447. [It is here -- in a mixture of French and computer code.] My list [of things that went wrong on the flight] is almost the same.

Any doubts about just how huge a task it is trying to find the cause of the crash of Flight 447, were removed at the headquarters of BEA, the French accident investigation agency, yesterday morning.

The French BEA's final report on the 2009 crash of Air France (AF) Flight 447, released Thursday, reiterated the two main themes of its investigation over the past three years: the Airbus A330-200 ...

Air France Flight 447 left Rio de Janeiro on the night of May 31 bound for Paris. There were 228 people on board when it plunged into the ocean. Categories: Politics, Brazil.

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Teams searching for the Air France plane that went missing over the Atlantic last Monday have found two bodies and debris from the plane, the Brazilian military says. The remains were picked up some ...

The co-pilots who were in the cockpit when Air France Flight 447 ran into trouble and then crashed June 1, 2009, were startled and never grasped that the plane was stalling, France's aviation ...