Tag: Air France

• Thursday, April 28th 2011 - 01:46 UTC

  Deep sea remote vehicle finds ‘black box chassis” among Air France wreckage

  

  Deep-sea searchers picking through wreckage of an Air France plane that crashed off Brazil in 2009 have found a part that held one of the flight's data recorders, but without the memory unit that could provide crucial clues to the crash.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2011 - 05:37 UTC

  Tail section of Air France plane located on the Atlantic bed 4 km down

  

  The tail section of an Air France plane which crashed over the Atlantic in 2009 has been found on the ocean floor, relatives of those killed have said. Investigators had told them the section was “relatively intact”, they added.

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 04:36 UTC

  Parts of Air France aircraft lost in 2009 found on seabed of the Atlantic

  

  France has discovered what appears to be part of an Air France aircraft that crashed in the Atlantic almost two years ago killing all 228 people on board, accident investigators said.

• Friday, August 27th 2010 - 07:51 UTC

  Air France To Increase Flights Between France and Chile

  

  Air France announced that beginning September 6, it will add more flights between Paris and Santiago. The airline currently offers five flights per week, but by September plans to increase that number to seven.

• Friday, May 7th 2010 - 03:33 UTC

  French Navy Locates Black Box from Air France that Plunged into the Atlantic

  

  The French navy has located the black box flight recorders from the Air France (EPA:AF) jet which plunged into the Atlantic killing 228 people last summer. However, officials said there was still no guarantee the recorders—that could explain the cause of the crash—would ever be brought to the surface.