France's Paris Court of Appeals has convicted Air France and Airbus of involuntary manslaughter over the 2009 crash of flight AF447, which killed all 228 people on board when it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June 2009, overturning a 2023 acquittal and holding the airline and manufacturer "solely and entirely responsible." The court imposed the maximum fine under French law — €225,000 (roughly USD 261,000) on each company — a sum victims' families described as largely symbolic, while both Air France and Airbus rejected the ruling and said they would appeal. The Airbus A330-200, operating the Rio de Janeiro–Paris route, stalled during a mid-ocean storm after its airspeed probes froze, and the co-pilots were unable to correct the subsequent stall; the disaster remains the deadliest in French civil aviation history.