The aeronautical manufacturer Airbus and the airline Air France will be tried at the end of the year for involuntary manslaughter for the accident that in 2009 cost the lives of the 228 people who were on a flight between Rio de Janeiro and Paris.
As reported by the local press on Thursday, the Paris correctional court will open sessions on October 10 in a process that is announced in the media and is scheduled to end on December 8.
It will try to settle the responsibility of Airbus, manufacturer of the A330 that crashed in Atlantic waters on June 1, 2009 a few hours after taking off from Rio de Janeiro.
And also from Air France, owner of the plane and which managed that flight that was scheduled to land in Paris with 216 passengers and 12 crew members.
The investigating judge acquitted both companies at first, considering that the causes of the accident were in the maneuvers carried out by the pilots.
But the insistence of the relatives of the victims and the pilot unions managed to decide to reopen the case on appeal and, after several appeals from Airbus and Air France, the Supreme Court concluded last August that they should sit on the bench of the accused. .
Contrary to what was concluded by the instructors, the judges of the Court of Appeal established that Air France did not instruct the pilots about the circumstances that led to the accident, while Airbus did not take into account the possible failures in the speed sensors.
It was these sensors that were at the origin of the accident, because they froze and sent erroneous information about the speed of the device to the cockpit.
Blinded by poor weather conditions, the pilots over-accelerated the plane and steered it upward, until it became so vertical that it lost lift and eventually crashed into the ocean.
The causes of the drama were a mystery for years, until two years later, in 2011, the remains of the plane and the black boxes were found, which shed light on the incident.
The correctional court must determine if there is involvement of the manufacturer and the airline in these errors, which will have an influence on the compensation of the relatives. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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