A Paris appeals court has found Airbus and Air ‌France ⁠guilty ⁠of corporate manslaughter over a 2009 air crash. The disaster in the Atlantic Ocean claimed the lives of all on board Air France Flight 447.

A Paris appeals court has found Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter over the 2009 Rio-Paris plane crash that killed 228 people, including three Irish women.

The companies were found guilty by a French court over an air disaster which killed 228 people.

The companies were found guilty by a French court over an air disaster which killed 228 people.

PARIS, May 21 - A Paris appeals court will issue a verdict on Thursday on the 2009 crash of an Air France passenger jet after the airline and planemaker Airbus faced trial over corporate manslaughter. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The crash killed 228 passengers and crew in France’s worst air disaster. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Jane Deasy, Eithne Walls and Aisling Butler were among 228 people killed in the crash.

Relatives of some of the 228 passengers and crew who died when the Airbus A330 vanished in darkness during an Atlantic storm gathered to hear the verdict after their 17-year legal battle to pinpoint blame for France's worst air disaster.