As air investigators continue to probe the plane crash in the Alps, The Local speaks to French aviation safety expert Christophe Naudin over the questions that arise from the latest air disaster that left 150 dead, and what it means for air travel.
UPDATED: French air investigators were examinining a black box recorder to find out why a Germanwings A380 plane crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday, killing 150 people on board. The airline says it's working on the theory the disaster was "an accident".
An airbus A320 carrying 150 people crashed in the southern French Alps on Tuesday morning, in what has been described as one of the worst plane disasters in the country. Here’s what we know so far about the crash.
French investigators will on Friday assist in the underwater search for the stricken AirAsia plane which crashed into the Java Sea with 162 people on board on December 28th.
France was mourning on Monday as authorities revealed the pilots aboard the Air Algérie flight had asked permission to turn back just before the jet went down, killing 118 people. Bad weather has been increasingly blamed for the accident.
UN experts investigating the Air Algerie plane disaster in Mali have recovered the second black box from the doomed plane, a spokesman of UN peacekeepers in the country said Saturday.
AS IT HAPPENED: France's president says there were no survivors of the Air Algerie crash in Africa, at the same time French authorities are ruling out the possibility the jet was shot down, saying bad weather is thus far the apparent cause.
The 2009 Air France plane crash that killed all 228 people on board was caused by stressed pilots making an "inappropriate response" to an equipment malfunction, a new experts' report has concluded.
The mysterious disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight in south east Asia, has been likened to the tragic 2009 crash involving an Air France flight on its way from Rio di Janeiro to Paris. But there are differences between the two cases.
An Air France Boeing 747 on its way to Paris was forced to return to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro this week, after a violent hailstorm hit the plane shortly after take off. One passenger recounted: "I was scared to death."
A private plane crashed near Lyon on Tuesday, killing all four people on board. The aircraft burst into flames when it crashed into a field shortly after take off from an aerodrome near the city in central France.
Two British residents were killed on Wednesday after the light aircraft they were travelling in cashed into the English Channel near the island of Jersey, local police said. The plane had departed from Dinan, in western France.
Three people, reportedly including a brother and sister, have been killed after a plane carrying tourists crashed on Thursday in the town of Vertaizon in central France. The nationalities of the victims are not yet known.
