Plane Crash
Air France Replaces Speed Sensors in Long-Haul Airplanes
June 15, 2009A pilots' union official said Air France has replaced the air speed sensors on its entire fleet of long-haul A330 and A340 aircraft. An investigation into the crash of an Air France jet off the coast of Brazil has focused on the possibility that icing...
A passenger missed Air France Flight 447 to die in car crash
June 11, 2009After narrow escape, fate catches up with Italian traveler NBC reports that Johanna Ganthaler, from Italy, was on vacation in Brazil with her husband Kurt. She missed the Air France Flight 447 when they arrived late at the airport in Rio de Janerio....
Air France Flight 447: Relatives of a victim join jet probe
June 11, 2009Relatives of a victim of the Air France crash have joined a manslaughter investigation as a plaintiff, in an effort to access files on the case. A lawyer for the family said that some of the relatives thought information was being withheld. The Paris...
Air France Flight 447: Brazil to begin bodies ID
June 11, 2009The first 16 bodies recovered from the scene of the Air France crash in the Atlantic ocean have been flown to the Brazilian city of Recife. The bodies were taken to the city's mortuary, where the process of identification will be carried out. A French...
Search for Bodies from Air France Flight 447 Wreckage Continues
June 11, 2009By Laurel Bowman Off the coast of Brazil, search teams continue to hunt for the wreckage of Air France Flight 447. They have recovered 41 bodies so far, with 187 still not accounted for. The cause of the crash remains a mystery, but investigators are...
Coast Guard Video: Fl. 1549's Emergency Landing in the river
January 19, 2009It was a U.S. Coast Guard video, the only one so far, shown the emergency landing of the airliner into the Hudson River near Manhattan, N.Y., around 3:31 p.m. Jan. 15, 2009. The video takes 10 minutes: the first two minutes there is nothing unordinary...
Plane crashed in New York, all passenger survived
January 15, 2009An Airbus 320 aircraft of the US Airways has gone down in the Hudson River near 48th Street in midtown Manhattan, New York, on Thursday Jan. 15, 2009. All passengers survived and are off the plane and rescued. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman...