A French public prosecutor is appealing a court decision that had cleared European planemaker Airbus and Air France of responsibility in France’s worst aviation disaster, the crash of a plane headed from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in June 2009 that killed all 228 people on board.
The Paris appeals court’s public prosecutor on Wednesday announced the decision to appeal the ruling of a lower court last month that found that, while Airbus and Air France had committed “acts of imprudence”, there was not a strong enough link between their failings and the accident to hold the companies responsible for the charge of involuntary manslaughter.
