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Airbus, Air France found guilty of corporate manslaughter in 2009 crash

More than 16 years after Air France Flight AF447 plunged into the Atlantic, a Paris appeals court has convicted Airbus and Air France of corporate manslaughter in the 2009 Rio-Paris disaster, the deadliest plane crash in France's history, which claimed 228 lives. Among those killed were three Irish women: Jane Deasy of Co Dublin, Eithne Walls of Co Down and Aisling Butler of Co Tipperary. All three were doctors travelling home after a holiday in Brazil. The ruling marks a new chapter in a long-running legal battle that has…