Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 people on board. The flight was traveling from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, France, making it the deadliest accident in Air France's history. An Airbus A330-200 airliner serving the flight crashed, marking the second fatal accident and highest death toll involving the A330 aircraft type.

1. AIR FRANCE CRISIS
Presentation of the company :
- Air France
- Motto : « faire du ciel le plus bel endroit de la Terre »
- Founded : 7 Octobre 1933
- Headquarters : Tremblay Charles de Gaule
- Based :
o Paris-Charles de Gaule aeroport
o Lyon Saint Exupéry aeroport
o Nice Cote d’Azure aeroport
o Marseille Provence aeroport
o Toulouse Blagnac aeroport
o Bordeaux Mérignac aeroport
- SkyTeam 2ndGlobal Alliance of airlinescompaniesincluding :
o KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines)
o Air France
- Chairman + CEO : Alexandre de Juniac
- CFO : Philippe Calavia
- Year 2011 :
o Group : Air France-KLM
o 593 planes
o 230 destinations (113 countries)
o 75,8 Millions passengers
o 102 014 employees
Air France Flight 447 (abbreviated AF447) was a scheduled
commercial flight from Galeão International Airport in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil to Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris, France. On 1
June 2009, the Airbus A330-200 airliner serving the flight crashed into
the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 216 passengers and 12 aircrew.[4] The
accident was the deadliest in the history of Air France,[5][6] and has
been described as the worst accident in French aviation history.[7] It
was the second fatal accident involving an Airbus A330, the first while in
commercial passenger service and, to date, the accident with the
highest death toll of any involving the aircraft type anywhere in the
world.