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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Peter Allen

Air France and Airbus cleared of manslaughter in Flight 447 Rio-Paris plane crash

Air France and Airbus were on Monday cleared of all wrongdoing in a plane crash in which 228 people including British and Irish passengers died – meaning the aircraft’s “sleeping pilots” were fully to blame.

Judges sitting at the Paris Criminal Court ruled that the companies involved in the Flight AF447 disaster were not guilty of manslaughter.

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