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Olivier Tolachides

Air France and Airbus convicted of manslaughter in 2009 Rio-Paris crash over Atlantic

A French appeals court convicted Air France and Airbus of involuntary manslaughter on Thursday over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight that killed 228 people, the worst disaster in France's aviation history.

The Paris Court of Appeal ruling was a dramatic reversal of a lower court decision.

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