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Air France will give about euro17,500 ($24,000) as an advance to the families of the victims of the crash of Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, the company's chief executive said.

With black boxes yet to be found from the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, investigators are struggling to draw conclusions from physical evidence and 24 automatic messages sent from the plane in the minutes before it disappeared.

Six more bodies were recovered from the Atlantic Ocean where an Air France jet crashed, Brazilian officials said Friday, as the ...

The family of a victim of the Air France crash joins a manslaughter investigation in an effort to access files on the case.

There should be no assumed link between on-board speed sensors and the crash of Air France Flight 447 into the Atlantic Ocean last week, the airline's chief executive said Thursday.

Brazilian divers have recovered the distinctive red- and blue-striped stabilizer from the tail of the Air France jetliner that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean.

Three more bodies were found in the ocean near the location where an Air France jet is believed to have crashed a week ago, Brazil’s military said.

Bodies have been found from the Air France plane which went missing over the Atlantic, the Brazilian military says.

Air France Flight 447 sent out 24 automated error messages -- including one saying the aircraft's autopilot had disengaged -- before it vanished with 228 people on board, aviation investigators said today.

French and Brazilian search teams have found no debris confirmed to have come from the Airbus A330 that vanished over the Atlantic, officials said today.