Airbus and Air France have been found guilty of corporate manslaughter in the 2009 crash of flight AF447 over the Atlantic. Airbus has announced it will appeal against the verdict of the court in Paris. The case has brought fresh focus to a tragedy could have been avoided.
In the dispassionate language used by accident investigators, the cause of the tragedy of Air France AF447 – and the needless loss of 228 lives – is revealed in the final accident report issued by the BEA. This is the highly regarded French air safety investigation authority for civil aviation.
