The Airbus A330, flight AF 447 Air France, which fell on June 1 into the Atlantic ocean, and was going from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France, with 228 people aboard, recovered only 51 bodies, and the searches continues, even today, because for various reasons, especially climates, they could not find the black box of the plane.

The Airbus 310 took off from Madrid for Washington but within minutes, had to return to land after detecting a problem. The mishap was later settled on the ground and the aircraft finally departed.

Eight people were slightly hurt after an engine on a Vueling Airlines SA plane caught fire outside a gate at Paris Orly airport, the low-cost Spanish carrier said.

Airbus is advising airlines to replace, as a precaution, the type of air speed sensor that malfunctioned on an Air France plane that crash last month, the company confirmed Friday.

An Air France flight from Rome to Paris earlier this month briefly lost its speed readings due to faulty sensors.

French submarines will next week resume the search for the flight recorders of the Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic ocean last month.

Investigators of the Air France crash in the Atlantic Ocean that killed 228 people may find it tougher to determine the cause of the accident as sound emitters from the plane’s data recorders start running out of power.

An airliner with 153 people on board and belonging to Yemen’s state carrier, Yemenia Air, crashed in the Indian Ocean, apparently near the archipelago of Comoros, early Tuesday.

The Associated Press says that initial reports that a 5-year-old boy had survived a jetliner crash in the Indian Ocean are now in question.

Brazil’s Air Force and Navy on Friday called off the search for additional victims and wreckage from Air France Flight 447, which crashed over the Atlantic on June 1 carrying 228 people.

The team reached the top five finalists in the Airbus Fly Your Ideas challenge.

Officials in Brazil have identified the first 11 of 50 bodies recovered from the Air France disaster in which 228 people died three weeks ago.

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An Airbus 330 aircraft experienced difficulties on the way from Hong Kong to Australia when facing strong turbulence, leaving six passengers and one crew member injured.

Air France will compensate through its insurers the families of the victims of a June 1 crash in which 228 people died, the company’s chief executive said on Friday.

The arduous mid-Atlantic search for the remains of Air France Flight 447 will go on as long as there is hope of finding the plane’s black boxes, the French defense minister said Tuesday.

Airbus head Thomas Enders on Friday publicly defended the company’s A330 jets for the first time since an Air France model crashed more than a week ago in the Atlantic, killing 228 people.

An Iberian flight between Madrid and Copenhagen has returned to Barajas airport 40 minutes after departing due to a breakdown in the system of navigation of the plane.

A plane similar to the one which crashed in the Air France disaster was forced into an emergency landing in Ireland on Friday.

In the most serious incident, the plane of the Australian company Jetstar (the same model as that of AF447) , was flying from Japan to Australia when the fire started beside a window.

The Brazilian Air Force, said that yesterday it made changes to the sensors that measure the speed of the Airbus ACJ-319 of the Presidency of Brazil.