Air France and Airbus acquitted in 2009 Rio-Paris crash trial.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Al Jazeera English
Air France and Airbus have been acquitted of involuntary manslaughter charges over the 2009 Rio-Paris flight crash that killed all 228 people on board. The French court ruled that their errors could not be proven as the disaster's cause. The ruling is a huge blow to families of victims who have waged a 14-year campaign for justice. The court said Airbus committed "four acts of imprudence or negligence", and Air France had committed two "acts of imprudence", but there was not a strong enough causal link between these failings and the accident to show an offence had been committed.
