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Questions were raised Friday over the training of the pilots on the doomed Air France Flight 447, after analysis of the plane's voice and data recorders by a French investigation body.

Pilots wrestled with the controls of an Air France airliner for more than four minutes before it plunged into the Atlantic with its nose up, killing all 228 people on board, French investigators said on Friday.

Recovery of the doomed Air France jet that disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean has entered a grim and controversial new phase: hoisting bodies ...

French officials say they could begin recovering victims of Air France's 2009 Rio plane crash within weeks, days after wreckage was found.

An American colonel says two ships searching for the black boxes of Air France Flight 447 are ending their hunt.

The Air France plane that crashed last month with 228 people aboard "did not break up or become destroyed in flight," the French air investigation agency announced today.

The Brazilian military said late Friday it is calling off the search for bodies of passengers and crew from the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic earlier this month.

Air France will give about euro17,500 ($24,000) as an advance to the families of the victims of the crash of Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, the company's chief executive said.

French investigators say more than 400 pieces of Flight 447 have been recovered in the Atlantic.

With black boxes yet to be found from the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, investigators are struggling to draw conclusions from physical evidence and 24 automatic messages sent from the plane in the minutes before it disappeared.