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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
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Michael Fitzpatrick

Despair, dismay and anger as court acquits Air France, Airbus over Rio disaster

Part of the crashed aircraft recovered by accident investigators. AFP - EVARISTO SA

A French court on Monday acquitted Air France and plane manufacturer Airbus in a trial over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight in which 228 people lost their lives.

The court said that even if "errors" had been committed, "no certain link of causality" between those shortcomings and the accident "could be proven".

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