Salvage efforts to retrieve bodies and evidence from the 2009 Air France crash wreckage have ended. According to Philippe Vinogradoff, a representative of the victims’ families, a total of 104 bodies were recovered from the floor of the Atlantic where the ill-fated flight had gone down in bad weather two years ago. They are currently [...]

Air France and Air Seychelles have extended a 14-year partnership. The new agreement goes into effect today and will provide a boost for the development of tourism in the Seychelles. The contract was finalised yesterday (May 31) at Seychelles International Airport, where both Dominique Patry, Air France’s VP for international affairs and alliances, as well [...]

After the release of preliminary data regarding the ill-fated Air France flight 447, aviation experts have said that lives could be saved with better pilot training. The recently recovered flight data recorders from the Airbus A330 show that the pilots of the jet had the opportunity to recover it from a three-minute plunge into the [...]

US-based carrier United Airlines has apologised for accidentally reintroducing flight numbers that had been retired following the 9/11 attacks. The airline recently began booking passengers on flight numbers UA93 and UA175, the same two flights ill fated that were highjacked on September 11th, 2001. Following the ordeal, United retired the two flight identifiers until now [...]

The French authorities have entered a controversial stage of the mission to recover the wreckage of an Air France passenger jet which ditched into the Atlantic nearly two years ago. Investigators have managed to bring two bodies to the surface using highly specialised robotic submarines. However, the families of the victims are split over whether [...]

A body has been retrieved from the Air France wreckage on the bottom of the Atlantic. It is the first body recovered since the plane went down on the 1st of June in 2009 shortly after departing Rio de Janeiro airport and is the beginning of the grisly task of potentially raising dozens of bodies [...]

The cockpit voice recorder of the Air France passenger jet which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 has finally been recovered. The discovery comes after crash investigators confirmed that they had managed to retrieve the plane’s flight data recorder two days ago. Both devices are said to appear to be in good condition. Thierry [...]

The families of those who died when an Air France passenger jet plunged into the Atlantic in 2009 have been given fresh hope of finding out why the accident occurred as search teams discover one of the Airbus A330′s black box recorders. It is the fourth time a team has tried to locate the data [...]

Part of the black box flight recorders from the Air France crash wreckage has been recovered from the floor of the Atlantic. The finding comes just 24 hours after a salvage vessel began a body retrieval effort. Search teams said however on Wednesday that they still haven’t found the piece that would contain data crucial [...]

A large portion of the tail from the Air France jet that crashed into the Pacific two years ago has been found. The news came via relatives of passengers that were killed in the crash and the discovery has brought fresh hope that the flight data recorders (black boxes) from the flight could soon be [...]