22 May 2026
By Tim Hepher, Reuters
Handout picture released June 8, 2009 by the Brazilian Navy showing divers recovering a huge part of the rudder of the Air France A330 aircraft lost in midflight over the Atlantic ocean June 1st.
Airbus and Air France have been found guilty of corporate manslaughter by a Paris appeals court over the 2009 Rio-Paris plane crash that killed 228 passengers and crew, three years after being acquitted in a lower court.
"Justice has absolutely been done," Daniele Lamy, president of the AF447 victims' association, who lost her son in the accident, said outside the courtroom.
