France opens safety probe into ‘serious’ New York to Paris flight issue

Air France planes are parked on the tarmac at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, in Roissy, near Paris, in 2019 (Christophe Ena/AP)

French aviation investigators are looking into a “serious incident” involving an Air France flight from New York that suffered flight control problems on approach to its landing in Paris.

The Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) said on Wednesday it has opened a safety probe and information from the so-called black box flight data and voice recorders is being checked.