French court acquits defendants in Airbus crash trial

A court in north-eastern France has acquitted all six defendants, including former aviation officials and an ex-Airbus executive, in a trial over a plane crash in 1992 that killed 87 people near the German border.

A court in north-eastern France has acquitted all six defendants, including former aviation officials and an ex-Airbus executive, in a trial over a plane crash in 1992 that killed 87 people near the German border.

Prosecutors alleged the plane was to blame.

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