Air France & Airbus To Stand Trial Over June 2009 Atlantic Ocean Plane Crash.

Wednesday, 12 May 2021 13:58

3 Irish women among the 228 people killed.

Air France and Airbus will stand trial in connection to a plane crash in June 2009 which killed 228 people, including three Irish women.

Flight AF447 was travelling from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to Paris when it went into the Atlantic Ocean during a storm.

Air France and Airbus should stand trial on involuntary manslaughter charges over a 2009 crash in the Atlantic Ocean which killed 228 people, a French court has ruledhttps://t.co/WZkQugnjbi
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) May 12, 2021

It took two years to find the plane's wreckage which was located almost four kilometres beneath the surface of the water.

Aisling Butler from Tipperary, Jane Deasy from Dublin and Eithne Walls from Belfast were among those who died on board.

The companies are expected to face charges on involuntary manslaughter.

Airbus and Air France-KLM could face charges of involuntary manslaughter over the deadly crash of a Paris-bound plane off the Brazilian coast over a decade ago https://t.co/jnMjX7TEq7
— Bloomberg (@business) May 12, 2021

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