Trial of flight AF447 Rio-Paris: the story of the crash

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Airbus and Air France are sent back to correctional for manslaughter on Monday. Thirteen years after the tragedy, back to the facts.

By Thierry Vigoreux

Dyears the night of May 31 to the 1^er June 2009, Air France flight AF 447 disappeared between Rio de Janeiro and Paris. On board the Airbus A 330-200 F-GZCP which fell at sea, 216 passengers and 12 crew members perished. The course of the drama, second by second, is not really known until two years later after the identification of the wreckage and the recovery of the flight recorders, the famous black boxes, whose data remained readable despite this long stay. at 3,900 meters deep.

The plane, without being new, is recent, as it entered service at the beginning of 2005. It had a total of 18,870 flight hours, which is relatively few for a device experienced in long-haul journeys. It had no maintenance anomaly. In 2009, there were 585 Airbus 330s in service. There are today…

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