Air France Flight 459, 37 minutes behind Flight 447, was taking similar action—flying 70 to 80 miles east of the original route and climbing from 35,000 feet to 37,000 feet.

Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. June 6, 2012— -- The Airbus A330 has one of the most sophisticated automated piloting systems in the airline industry, but the ...

In 2009, Air France Flight 447 was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris when it went missing. The jet, an Airbus A330 with a similar flight-control system to that of the AirAsia Airbus A320, had ...

The newest report from the French investigation bureau BEA finds that confusion reigned in the cockpit as the doomed Air France flight 447 fell out of the sky and into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1 ...

Air France issued a statement with details about the monitors hours after the French agency investigating the disaster of Flight 447 said the instruments were not replaced on that aircraft — an ...

Updated on: June 2, 2011 / 12:13 PM EDT / MoneyWatch The crash of Air France Flight 447 stumped investigators for more than two years and even now there are some unanswered questions.

A reservation mix-up, an overbooking and a Brazilian cabbie's passion for soccer are all that saved some would-be passengers on Air France flight 447 from the fate of 228 others who lost their ...

Air France Flight 447, a twin-engine A330, took off from Galeão International Airport in Rio de Janeiro at 7:30 p.m. local time and was last heard from three hours later, when the cockpit crew ...

Since an Air France jet crashed off the coast of Brazil in 2009, some foreign regulators and airlines have moved much faster to advance technology. By Nicola Clark Pilots suspended cooperation ...

Brazilian Air Force crew members look over the Atlatic Ocean in search of the wreckage of missing Air France flight 447 on June 3, 2009. The plane’s ‘black boxes’ may be unrecoverable.

Air France Flight 459, 37 minutes behind Flight 447, was taking similar action—flying 70 to 80 miles east of the original route and climbing from 35,000 feet to 37,000 feet.

This much is known about Air France Flight 447, which crashed on a routine overnight flight between Brazil and Paris on May 31, 2009: The plane was flying at 35,000 feet when it encountered ...