Air France and Airbus guilty of corporate manslaughter for 2009 plane crash

Verdict is latest legal milestone over France’s worst ever air disaster

A Paris appeals court has found Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter over the 2009 Rio-Paris plane crash that killed 228 passengers and crew in France’s worst air disaster.

The verdict is the latest milestone in a legal marathon involving two of France’s most emblematic companies and families of the mainly French, Brazilian and German victims.