Air France, Airbus to face trial over 2009 Rio-Paris crash
France s national carrier and Europe s top aircraft maker are to stand trial over the 2009 crash of a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris that killed all 228 people on board.
Part of the wreckage that was found in the immediate aftermath of the crash of Flight AF447
A Paris appeals court on Wednesday ruled that both Air France and Airbus must face a trial over the crash of an Airbus A330 jet in June 2009.
Flight AF447 was en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris when it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean during a storm killing everyone on board.