{"id":132162,"date":"2022-10-10T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=132162"},"modified":"2022-10-10T23:19:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T23:19:57","slug":"trial-begins-against-air-france-airbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2022\/10\/trial-begins-against-air-france-airbus.html","title":{"rendered":"Trial begins against Air France, Airbus for 2009 Rio-Paris flight crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This Monday begins the trial against Air France and Airbus<\/strong>, which are accused of involuntary manslaughter for the 2009 fatal crash of a plane en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro that killed all 228 people on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victims’ families and some aviation experts say the pilots were insufficiently trained to handle a loss of speed readings caused by crucial equipment freezing over in a storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flight AF 447 from Rio de Janeiro plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of June 1, 2009, after entering a zone near the Equator known for strong turbulence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Airbus A330 was carrying 12 crew members and 216 passengers. It was the carrier’s deadliest crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took nearly two years to locate the bulk of the fuselage and recover the “black box” flight recorders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Air France and Airbus were charged as the inquiry progressed, with experts determining the crash resulted from mistakes made by pilots disorientated by so-called Pitot speed-monitoring tubes that had frozen over in thick cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But investigating magistrates overseeing the case dropped the charges in 2019, a decision that infuriated victims’ families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prosecutors appealed the decision and in 2021 a Paris court ruled there was sufficient evidence for a trial to go ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ophelie Toulliou, who lost her brother on the flight, said it was essential “the truth come out, and that the sentences, if deserved, are handed down”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“But the message is also to make companies that think they’re untouchable understand: ‘You’re like everyone else and if you make mistakes, they will be punished,” she told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court will hear testimony from dozens of aviation experts and pilots over two months of hearings, and each company faces a maximum fine of 225,000 euros ($220,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will also be analysis of the final minutes in the cockpit before the plane went into free-fall after entering a so-called “intertropical convergence zone” that often produces volatile storms with heavy precipitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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