French court opens new trial on AF447 air disaster 16 years on


  • World
  • Monday, 29 Sep 2025

PARIS (Reuters) -A French appeals court will begin a new trial on Monday of Air France and Airbus, 16 years after a jetliner plunged into the Atlantic killing all 228 people on board.

A lower French court cleared both companies of corporate manslaughter in 2023 following a historic public trial over the disappearance of flight AF447 while en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1, 2009.

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