The court of Paris released Monday afternoon Airbus and Air France responsible for the crash of the Rio-Paris flight, which in 2009 caused 228 deaths.
Almost fourteen years after the Rio-Paris flight accident, which in 2009 caused the death of 228 people, on Monday 17 April the criminal court of Paris exonerated the two companies Airbus and Air France, holding that, if they had committed “faults” , “no certain causal link” with the accident “cannot be proven”.
Airbus and Air France have been prosecuted “involuntary manslaughter”, in what is the deadliest accident in the history of French airlines.
The court had to say whether or not the European aircraft manufacturer and the French company were guilty of any connection to the crash.
The two companies faced each other a fine of 225,000 euros. At the end of a trial marathon, which took place from 10 October to 8 December, the prosecutor had asked for the release of the two companies, believing that their guilt it was “impossible to prove”.
The accident
On June 1, 2009, Flight AF447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic in the middle of the night, hours after takeoff, killing all 216 passengers and 12 crew. On board the A330, registered as F-GZCP, were traveling people of 33 nationalities, including 72 French and 58 Brazilian.
Both Air France and Airbus have denied manslaughter. A French court handed down the ruling the following Monday a two month trial.
air France compensated for families of the deceased.
Air France Flight 447 crashed en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro, killing all 228 people on board, in an accident experts are still trying to figure out.
Official disaster reporting began after it was they will find the black boxes, after two years of research.
It turned out that the plane crashed due to various factorsIncluded icing on external sensors called pitot tubes and pilot error.
Three hours after takeoff, the aircraft entered an area well known to pilots on this trajectory, the “drop-off”. A meeting place for the air masses of the northern and southern hemispheres conducive to stormy developments.
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Source: Clarin
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