Airline now charged with involuntary manslaughter

Air France-KLM has been placed under investigation by a French court for involuntary manslaughter over a 2009 crash on a flight between Rio and Paris which killed 228 people, the airline’s lawyer Fernand Garnault told Reuters. The court took the decision after European plane maker Airbus was also placed under investigation for the crash.

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