France

The latest report by the French aviation authority investigating the Air France Rio-Paris flight crash, made public Friday, said that pilots ignored stall warnings and failed to follow textbook procedures due to a lack of training.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde has promised reforms to give Brazil and other emerging economies greater clout within the International Monetary Fund if she succeeds in her bid to head the global lender.

An initial report by French investigators says the ill-fated Air France flight that crashed en route from Rio to Paris in June 2009 stalled before plunging from 38,000 feet into the Atlantic Ocean in less than four minutes.

The pilots of Air France's doomed 2009 Rio-Paris flight may have been confused by faulty flight control systems and reacted in error, The Wall Street Journal said Tuesday citing people familiar with preliminary findings from the plane's recorders.

French aviation authorities said Monday that they have recovered the data from the black box recorders of Air France flight 447, which crashed on June 1, 2009, en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

In a letter to the French families of the victims of the doomed Rio-Paris crash, judges in Paris have said not all bodies will be recovered, contradicting previous statements by French and Brazilian authorities.

French search and rescue teams have retrieved a first body from the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic in 2009, a few days after hauling up two flight recorders from the 4,000 metre-deep wreck.

Search teams recovered the second black box flight recorder of Air France flight 447, which crashed en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in 2009. The black box was "in good condition", France's Bureau of Investigation and Analysis said on Tuesday.

Search teams recovered the memory unit of one of the “black boxes” of the Air France Rio-Paris plane that crashed in the Atlantic in June 2009, investigators said Sunday. The crash had killed all 228 people on board.

Searchers sifting through the wreckage of Air France Flight 447 found one of the plane’s data recorders, but without the memory unit needed to provide any real clues. The flight crashed into the Atlantic in 2009, killing all 228 people on board.