Accident
On 1 June 2009, Air France Flight 447, a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, crashed into the mid-Atlantic Ocean. The aircraft, an Airbus A330, was carrying 228 passengers and crew, all of whom died in the accident.
Cause
The accident occurred due to inconsistent airspeed indications and miscommunication between the pilots, which resulted in an unrecoverable stall. The flight crew lost control of the aircraft after receiving conflicting airspeed readings, leading to a stall from which they were unable to recover.
Recovery Operations
Within five days of the crash, the Brazilian Navy recovered the first major wreckage and two bodies from the sea. However, the aircraft's flight recorders were not located until May 2011, nearly two years after the accident, when they were retrieved from the ocean floor.