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Air France Flight 447. / 3.06583°N 30.56167°W / 3.06583; -30.56167. Air France Flight 447 ( AF447 / AFR447) [b] was a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France. On 1 June 2009, inconsistent airspeed indications and miscommunication led to the pilots inadvertently stalling the Airbus A330.
Its aircraft have been involved in a number of major accidents and incidents. The deadliest accident of the airline occurred on June 1, 2009, when Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330-203, flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean with 228 fatalities. A selected list of the most noteworthy of these events is given below.
Air France Flight 4590. / 48.98556°N 2.47222°E / 48.98556; 2.47222. On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde passenger jet on an international charter flight from Paris to New York, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground. It was the only fatal Concorde accident during its 27 ...
May 10 – Air France Flight 406, a Lockheed Starliner, broke up in mid-air and crashed into the Sahara Desert near the Edjele oilfield in Algeria following a possible bomb explosion, killing all 78 on board. May 30 – Viasa Flight 897, a Douglas DC-8, crashed shortly after taking off from Lisbon Portela Airport. All 61 passengers and crew on ...
AP File A French search team has pulled 75 more bodies from the wreckage of Air France Flight 447, which crashed en route to Paris on June 1,
On 26 June 1988, Air France Flight 296Q, the first passenger flight of the Airbus A320, flown by a Airbus A320-111 registered as F-GFKC, crashed into trees during a demonstration flight at Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport, France. Three passengers out of 136 on board died during the evacuation as the aircraft began to burn.
Air France Flight 007. Air France Flight 007 crashed on 3 June 1962 while on take-off from Orly Airport. The only survivors of the disaster were two flight attendants; the other eight crew members, and all 122 passengers on board the Boeing 707, were killed. The crash was at the time the worst single-aircraft disaster and the deadliest crash ...
Air France Flight 009. Air France Flight 009 was a scheduled international flight that crashed into a mountain while attempting to land at Santa Maria Airport, Azores on a stopover during a scheduled international passenger flight from Paris-Orly Airport to New York City. All 48 people on board were killed.