Aviation regulators are expected to issue new advice to pilots after investigations into the crash of an Air Algerie jet in Mali last July found it went out of control after being hit by ice as an anti-icing system remained switched off.

The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight repeatedly sped up the plane as he used the automatic pilot to descend the A320 into the Alps, the French air accident investigation agency said.

German daily Bild and French magazine Paris Match said their reporters have been shown a video they say was taken by someone inside the cabin of the doomed plane shortly before it crashed.

Of all the cities in England, there’s a connection between Liverpool and Ireland that stretches far beyond the players who have represented Everton and Liverpool.

Teams of French and Thai experts plied the vast and muddy Mekong River with high-tech sonar equipment today, ramping up the search for a Lao Airlines plane, 19 bodies still missing from the crash and clues to why the aircraft went down three days earlier.

The pilot of the Air France jet which plunged into the Atlantic in 2009 killing 228 people, pushed the nose upward instead of downward during a stall because of false data from sensors, the father of a victim says.

While it sticks rigidly to best practice in its operations and avoids environmental issues that plague other sites, Bottlehill landfill has serious problems, writes Claire O’Sullivan

THE crew piloting a doomed Air France jet over the Atlantic did not realise the plane was in a stall, were insufficiently trained in flying manually, and never informed the passengers that anything was wrong before they plunged into the sea.

The crew piloting a doomed Air France jet over the Atlantic did not appear to know that the plane was in a stall, despite repeated warning signals, according to findings in a new report.

THE Air France plane which crashed into the Atlantic two years ago killing 228 people including three Irish women stalled, lost speed and descended at a rate of 180ft per second, an accident report has confirmed.

INVESTIGATORS have pulled data from the black boxes of an Air France jet which crashed in the Atlantic in 2009, boosting efforts to explain what caused the disaster and killed all 228 people on board, including three Irish women.

Flight recorders from an Air France jet found deep in the Atlantic nearly two years after it crashed are readable, experts said today.

THE family of a young Irish woman who died in the June 2009 Air France-KLM plane crash off Brazil believe evidence in the second recovered black box will prove whether the airline was responsible for her death.

UNDERSEA robots have located bodies, motors and a “large part” of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, in which three young Irish women died.

Investigators are hoping the discovery of wreckage will shed light on what caused an Air France plane to crash in the Atlantic almost two years ago.

Underwater search teams have located pieces of an Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009, offering a surprising new glimmer of hope in the protracted hunt for clues.

Former 'Doctor Who' actor David Tennant is to star in a new drama which brings to life the story of the “Busby Babes” and the air disaster which claimed many of their lives, it was announced today.

A REVIEW of the Bottlehill landfill licence was conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over six months of this year – without any EPA officials actually visiting the site.

A LIBYAN plane carrying 104 people crashed yesterday on approach to Tripoli’s airport, leaving a field scattered with smouldering debris that included a large chunk of the tail painted with the airline’s brightly coloured logo. A 10-year-old Dutch boy was the only known survivor.

A new search in the Atlantic for the wreckage of the Air France Airbus that crashed mysteriously nine months ago was announced today.

THE inquiry into the crash of Air France Flight 447 could take at least a year and a half to reach a conclusion, the director of the French agency investigating the incident said yesterday.

The inquiry into the crash of Air France Flight 447 could take at least a year and a half to reach a conclusion, the director of the French agency investigating the incident said today.

BRITISH Airways, which has flown under a series of names in its history, celebrated its 90th anniversary yesterday.

AN INTACT Air France Flight 447 slammed belly first into the Atlantic Ocean at a high speed, a top French investigator has said, adding that problems with the plane’s speed sensors were not the direct cause of the crash.

The Air France Airbus that crashed into the Atlantic killing 228 people, among them three Irish nationals, plunged vertically into the ocean intact and at high speed, investigators said today.

The Air France Airbus that crashed off Brazil killing 228 people, among them three Irish nationals, did not break up in flight but plunged vertically into the Atlantic, experts said today.

The injured 14-year-old sole survivor of the Comoros plane crash told today how she clung to floating wreckage for 13 hours before she was found.

Air France’s chief executive says the company will give about £15,000 (€17,500) as an advance to the families of the victims of the crash of Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

Autopsies have revealed fractures in the legs, hips and arms of Air France Flight 447 victims, injuries that – along with the large pieces of wreckage pulled from the Atlantic – strongly suggest the plane broke up in the air, experts say.

EXPERTS say autopsies on victims of the Air France disaster suggest the plane broke up in the air.

A Dutch ship towing a high-tech, US Navy listening device was trawling the Atlantic today for data and voice recorders that investigators say are key to determining what caused an Air France jet to crash with 228 people on board.

A BURST of last-minute automatic messages sent by Air France Flight 447 includes one about a problem with a rudder safety device, but that does not explain what sent the jet plunging into the Atlantic Ocean, an aviation expert said.

A burst of automatic messages sent by Air France Flight 447 before it crashed into the Atlantic includes one about a problem with a rudder safety device, an expert said.

Six more bodies were recovered from the Atlantic Ocean where an Air France jet crashed, as the race to find the black boxes and gather key evidence from human remains and debris gained urgency.

A specialist US underwater team was brought in to try to locate the missing flight recorders from the lost Air France flight 447 today.

Search ships methodically worked through debris from a doomed Air France jet, recovering 15 more bodies near the spot where the Airbus A330 is believed to have gone down a week ago.

FOUR more bodies were found yesterday in the ocean near the spot where an Air France jet is believed to have crashed a week ago, bringing the total number of bodies plucked from the water to six, Brazil’s military said.

Three more bodies were found in the Atlantic today, near the spot where an Air France jet is believed to have crashed a week ago, bringing the total number of bodies plucked from the water to five.

DOOMED Air France Flight 447’s last terrifying few minutes in the air have already been pieced together by accident investigators.

Doomed Air France Flight 447’s last terrifying few minutes in the air have already been pieced together by accident investigators.

Military planes located new debris from Air France Flight 447 while investigators focused on a nightmarish ordeal in which the jetliner broke up over the Atlantic as it flew through a violent storm.