Airbus, Air France found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 Atlantic crash
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A French appeals judiciary found Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter on Thursday over the Rio-Paris plane crash, but a 17-year
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Airbus, Air France found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 Atlantic crash
A French appeals judiciary found Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter on Thursday over the Rio-Paris plane crash, but a 17-year legal battle over the country's worst aviation crisis is set to continue.
"Fairness has absolutely been done," Daniele Lamy, head of the AF447 victims' association, whose son was one of 228 individuals who died in the crash, stated outside the courtroom.
Relatives of some of those who died when the Airbus A330 plunged in pitch darkness into the Atlantic during an equatorial cyclone on June 1, 2009, listened to the ruling in silence.
A local judicial body had in 2023 cleared the two French companies, both of which have repeatedly refuted the allegations.
Thursday's ruling is the latest milestone in a legal marathon involving relatives of the mainly French, Brazilian and German victims and two of France's most emblematic companies.
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