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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.

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.

Six more bodies were recovered from the Atlantic Ocean where an Air France jet crashed, Brazilian officials said Friday, as the ...

The family of a victim of the Air France crash joins a manslaughter investigation in an effort to access files on the case.