Airbus faces charge over sea crash

A French judge has filed preliminary manslaughter charges against planemaker Airbus over the 2009 crash of an Air France jet.

A French judge has filed preliminary manslaughter charges against planemaker Airbus over the 2009 crash of an Air France jet.

All 228 people aboard the Rio de Janeiro-Paris flight were killed when the Airbus A330 jet crashed into the Atlantic on June 1, 2009.

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