Air France Flight 459, 37 minutes behind Flight 447, was taking similar action—flying 70 to 80 miles east of the original route and climbing from 35,000 feet to 37,000 feet.

Since an Air France jet crashed off the coast of Brazil in 2009, some foreign regulators and airlines have moved much faster to advance technology. By Nicola Clark Pilots suspended cooperation ...

It took three minutes and 30 seconds for Air France flight 447 to descend 38,000 feet before plunging into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 228, according to France's Bureau of Investigation and Analysis.

A Brazilian helicopter crew recovered the first wreckage from Air France Flight 447 on Thursday, fishing a structural support piece about eight feet (2.5 meters) long from the ocean.

Until debris from the missing aircraft began to surface on June 6, Air France Flight 447 and its 228 passengers and crew seemed to have vanished into thin air. There were no last-minute distress ...

FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil — The last manual message from the pilot of Air France Flight 447 indicated the plane was headed into a storm.

Tim Vasquez, a predecessor of mine at my last TV stop has conducted a remarkable analysis of the meteorological conditions surrounding the crash of Air France Flight 447 over the equatorial ...

As for Flight 447, even if the plane’s ADIRU did malfunction, an electrical short circuit or other problem may actually be to blame, he says.

The bodies and debris pulled from the Atlantic Ocean Sunday should arrive back on shore today where investigators will begin to get a better picture of what happened on Air France flight 447.

Navy ships found the bodies of two men and debris including a blue seat with a serial number matching Air France Flight 447, a rucksack containing a vaccination card, and a briefcase with an Air ...

Air France’s main pilots’ union and relatives of those killed in Flight 447 criticized reports suggesting that crucial errors made by the jet’s crew may have led to the disaster.