Air France plane descended at 180ft per second

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.

Everyone on the Paris-bound Airbus A330 were killed. Among the passengers were Irish doctors Aisling Butler, 26, Jane Deasy, 27, and Eithne Walls, 29.

The descent lasted three minutes and 30 seconds on the flight — AF447 — which had left Rio de Janeiro on May 31 2009, the report by France’s air accident investigation bureau, the BEA, said.