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Air France, Airbus face trial over fatal 2009 Rio-Paris plane disaster

Part of the A330 aircraft's tail section was recovered by the Brazilian navy on 8 June 2009. AFP

Air France and aircraft maker Airbus go on trial in Paris on Monday on charges of involuntary manslaughter – 13 years after an A330 jet plunged into the Atlantic on a flight from Rio de Janeiro, killing all 228 people on board.

Flight 447 vanished from radar screens after it stalled during a storm as it was flying to Paris from the Brazillian city of Rio de Janeiro on 1 June 2009.

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