The Paris Criminal Court acquitted Air France and Airbus of charges of manslaughter in the June 2009 crash of an Airbus A330 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. In its decision, the court considered that no definite causal link between the anemometric probes complained of or the lack of information complained of on the one hand and the accident on the other had been demonstrated.
The prosecutor's office had requested the acquittal of the two groups, considering their responsibility impossible to prove. The French justice had initially dismissed the case in 2019, but this decision was invalidated on appeal.