The Airbus A330-200 aircraft was en-route to Paris on an overnight flight from Rio de Janeiro on June 1, 2009, when it disappeared off the radar in the middle of a high-altitude thunderstorm over ...

However, the airline had not replaced them. Shortly after the crash, Airbus recommended that Air France replace the sensors on its long-haul A330 aircraft, which it began doing in August 2009.

The Airbus A330-200 aircraft was en-route to Paris on an overnight flight from Rio de Janeiro on June 1, 2009, when it disappeared off the radar in the middle of a high-altitude thunderstorm over ...

An Air France A330-200 was en-route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris when it suffered a rapid succession of technical problems after hitting turbulence early last Monday and plunged into the Atlantic.

Air France announced Monday that the Air France Airbus A330-200, Flight 447, bound for Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, vanished over the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday at around 0200 GMT with 216 ...