A photograph taken on November 25, 2020 shows Air France planes parked in Roissy airport, northern Paris.
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The public prosecutor's office on Wednesday asked for a trial in France for Air France and Airbus in the context of the Rio-Paris flight crash, which left 228 people dead on June 1, 2009, unlike the investigating judges who had pronounced a dismissal in 2019. Flight AF447 crashed in the Atlantic Ocean.
All the passengers and crew, of 34 nationalities, were killed in the crash, the deadliest in the history of the French company.
The investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal will rule on March 4 on the criminal referral of Airbus and Air France companies for "involuntary homicides", said the judicial source, confirming information from the
Parisian
.
These requisitions go beyond those of the Paris prosecutor's office, which had appealed against this dismissal, but had only called for a lawsuit against the airline alone.
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