The mystery of what took down Air France Flight 447 over the Atlantic, killing all 228 on board, has haunted investigators for two years. Now aviation expert Clive Irving reconstructs a timeline of ...

FERNANDO DE NORONHA ? 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 ...

As the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and the 239 people on board has continued over the past 12 days, there have been many reminders about the fate of Air France Flight 447. En route from ...

PARIS (AP) — A reservation mix-up, an overbooking and a Brazilian cabbie's passion for soccer are all that saved some would-be passengers on Air France flight 447 from the fate of 228 others who lost ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Investigators trying to determine why Air France Flight 447 broke apart in a violent storm over the Atlantic are looking at the possibility that speed sensors -- or an external ...

The newest report from the French investigation bureau BEA finds that confusion reigned in the cockpit as the doomed Air France flight 447 fell out of the sky and into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, ...

08 June 2009 • 1:32pm Members of the Brazilian Air Force carry a body recovered from the ocean, at Fernando de Noronha island airport, off the northeast coast of BrazilCredit: AP The door of one of ...

A new report by BEA, the French aviation accident investigation agency, on the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in the Atlantic Ocean has found that the crew lacked the ...

Faulty sensor readings contributed to a copilots decision to nose the plane up instead of heading down to increase air speed and prevent a deadly... Faulty warning ...

PARIS – The head of the French agency leading the probe into the crash of Flight 447 says Air France had not replaced instruments that measure air speed on the plane, which the manufacturer had ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Responding to recent incidents in which airliners vanished, U.S. accident investigators recommended Thursday that all passenger planes making long flights over water carry improved ...

Could a meteor strike be the reason behind the crash of Air France flight 447? The math geeks at Discover crunched some numbers and it turns out that it’s not as implausible as you might think.