Air France Flight 459, 37 minutes behind Flight 447, was taking similar action—flying 70 to 80 miles east of the original route and climbing from 35,000 feet to 37,000 feet.

This much is known about Air France Flight 447, which crashed on a routine overnight flight between Brazil and Paris on May 31, 2009: The plane was flying at 35,000 feet when it encountered ...

Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. June 6, 2012— -- The Airbus A330 has one of the most sophisticated automated piloting systems in the airline industry, but the ...

Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about 725 km (450 miles) northeast of Brazil at about 2:30 a.m. local time, Monday, June 1.

Since an Air France jet crashed off the coast of Brazil in 2009, some foreign regulators and airlines have moved much faster to advance technology. By Nicola Clark Pilots suspended cooperation ...

Air France issued a statement with details about the monitors hours after the French agency investigating the disaster of Flight 447 said the instruments were not replaced on that aircraft — an ...

At least, that's what we all thought before Air France Flight 447 dropped off the radar. "Planes missing in storms sounded like something from the old days of oceanic flight, not the world of ...

Air France Flight 447’s flight recordings show the aircraft slowed to a stall after its airspeed sensors failed while the two co-pilots were at the controls, two people with knowledge of the ...

Air France Flight 459, 37 minutes behind Flight 447, was taking similar action—flying 70 to 80 miles east of the original route and climbing from 35,000 feet to 37,000 feet.

Air France Flight 459, 37 minutes behind Flight 447, was taking similar action—flying 70 to 80 miles east of the original route and climbing from 35,000 feet to 37,000 feet.

Updated on: June 2, 2011 / 12:13 PM EDT / MoneyWatch The crash of Air France Flight 447 stumped investigators for more than two years and even now there are some unanswered questions.

Air France’s main pilots’ union and relatives of those killed in Flight 447 criticized reports suggesting that crucial errors made by the jet’s crew may have led to the disaster.