Workers unloading debris, belonging to crashed Air France flight AF447, from the Brazilian Navy’s Constitution Frigate in the port of Recife, northeast of Brazil, on June 14, 2009. Eraldo Peres/AP Photo
An appeals court in Paris overturned a lower court’s 2023 verdict on May 21 and found Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter over a 2009 crash that killed 228 people.
Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to Paris vanished from radar screens over the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, during a storm.
