Air France 447: The Crash That Baffled Aviation Experts and Changed Flying Forever
On the night of June 1 2009 Air France Flight 447 — an Airbus A330 carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris — disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean. No distress call was made. The wreckage was not found for two years. The flight recorders took another year to recover from 3900 metres below the surface. What they revealed when finally decoded shocked the aviation world — and permanently changed how pilots around the world are trained.
