Airlines
Airbus and Air France Deny Criminal Manslaughter Charges
More than 10 years after investigators reported on the fatal crash of Air France flight AF447, the airline and Airbus are facing manslaughter charges.

The Paris Criminal Court this week started hearing a potential landmark case in which Airbus and Air France stand accused of involuntary manslaughter for the deaths of 228 passengers and crew aboard an A330 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to the French capital on June 1, 2009. At opening proceedings on Monday afternoon for a case expected to run into early December, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury and his Air France counterpart Anne Rigail both entered not-guilty pleas on behalf of their organizations.


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