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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.
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 ...
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.
AP File On Tuesday, a French judge ordered Air France to pay the families of the victims of flight 447, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1,
Air France Flight 358 was a regularly scheduled international flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, to Toronto Pearson International Airport in Ontario, Canada. On the afternoon of 2 August 2005, while landing at Pearson airport, the Airbus A340-313E operating the route overran the runway and crashed into nearby Etobicoke ...
Proteus Airlines Flight 706. / 47.5044; -2.9892. Proteus Airlines Flight 706 was a scheduled commuter flight from Lyon, France to Lorient, France. On July 30, 1998, the Beechcraft 1900D operating the flight collided in mid-air with a Cessna 177 over Quiberon Bay, Brittany. Both aircraft crashed in the sea, killing all 15 occupants on both planes.
133. Air France Flight 296Q was a chartered flight of a new Airbus A320-111 operated by Air Charter International for Air France. [ 1] On 26 June 1988, the plane crashed while making a low pass over Mulhouse–Habsheim Airfield ( ICAO airport code LFGB) as part of the Habsheim Air Show. Most of the crash sequence, which occurred in front of ...
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 ...